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Just the fetishism about these devices is striking. "Our devices should be making a statement about who we are and what we do".

Thousand dollar phones with $100 month services. $159 earbuds. Think we are all in the matrix.




My local anecdata: most people I know have 3rd party headphones if they actually listen to music. The people that use the in-the-box headphones from Apple tend to be the forever-on-a-call types. I struggle to see people buying these at this price point since there are plenty of bluetooth earbuds that are equal quality to Apple^, sub-$50, and won't instantly disappear in the couch. At Apple's price-point, you can already get a high-quality bluetooth earbud/mic from Audio-Technica. I would guess you'll have Beyerdynamic, AKG, Shure, and Senheiser all pop out a similar pair soon enough (Some may consider themselves 'above' bluetooth, though). I really don't understand their pricing. I could understand it if the equivalent Beats were $30 cheaper so they could create some tier pricing, however they are pretty much the same price.

^ Assuming they continue their trend of mediocre sound quality.


And if you have high-end headphones plugged into an ipod, you might want an external amp anyway.


It reminds me of the games with expensive equipment played by the lower castes in Brave New World.

And we are almost definitely in a computed universe.




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