So you willing purchase products from a company that active shuns support of industry standards and third party integration in order to lock their customers to their proprietary ecosystem and then see this reduction in options as a value?
But the airpods arent good headphones for their price range. They are successful because they are Apple, they offer a baseline quality for people who don’t know better and they offer status.
These already require Big Sur? Not even a year in, an Apple is already making it a requirement for the rest of the ecosystem? How do the fanbois do it? They are frankly being herded as cattle with no negotiation leverage or power within a system seeking to milk them at every level.
> Why are so many people upset by this?
> It’s like they have some kind visceral reaction to seeing someone who isn’t being thrifty and researching every little thing out with spreadsheets.
It doesn’t affect you. They’re not telling you to do it.
Would you pay $100 for a 100MB usb drive? Would you not react and try to dissuade a friend from making a purchase you recognize to be ill-considered?
It’s your money, do what you want, but people are upset because there are (probably, since we dont know yet) better options that don’t have an Apple pricetag. The purchase would be based on complacency with a brand, and not conformity to rational principles and knowledge.
Few have already posted that they would buy this because it’s Apple, in order to avoid 1-2 hours of research. I really hope these aren’t the same people complaining about how terrible capitalism is.
> I'm not sure why Apple receives this kind of contempt
Because to many, Apple is not a trusted brand. I got generic Bluetooth headphones off Amazon that were much better than the airpods for a 1/3rd of the price. Beats are a status commodity with a terrible sound profile and overpriced (hence status).
I have little faith that these new cans are gonna be worth the pricetag.