Apple's New USB-C AirPods Case: A Smart Buy or Overpriced?
Apr 30, 2024
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Let's dive right in
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First story of the day. You can now buy standalone. Wait, is this the right story
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Okay, thank God. Here it is. You can now buy standalone USB-C cases
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for your AirPods Pro 2. But I don't think you're gonna want to
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Because as you might expect, Apple didn't make it cheap. How much is a pair of AirPods Pro, gentlemen
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$249 list. Well, that's the MSRP. But I've seen these things on sale regularly
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Less than 200 often. Yeah, less than 200. $199. $199, maybe even a little bit less
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But the AirPods USB-C case, which you could only previously get exclusively
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with buying a brand new pair of the new AirPods, has just released
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Apple wants $99 for that list. 99 smackers. Oh, I know. I think it's steep, honestly
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I think it's pretty steep. We had a big discussion yesterday when this came up yesterday
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A big slap discussion. I wanted the headline to be something like, only a sucker would buy a USB-C case for their AirPods
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I mean, 99 bucks is a lot of money for a case
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Yeah, but $250 is also a lot for headphones, too. And this is, like, when you buy AirPods Pro
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you get three things, a left AirPod, a right AirPod, and a case
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And this is less than a third of the price of that. You know? Yeah
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And the case has a lot of technology in it. Like, when Apple did this for the original AirPods
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when they revised the original AirPods with a wireless charging case, I mean, AirPods then cost, like, I think $160
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and they sold the wireless charging case for $70. Like, $79 or $80, I think
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And, you know, which was a greater proportion of the overall cost of the device
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And the AirPods 2 case has much more technology in it than that original AirPods case does
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It has the USB-C connector. Yeah, it has the speaker. It has, like, Find My support
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so it has, like, additional radios in it. It has the little metal loop thing
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You know, that adds a fraction of a penny. So. Don't forget about the metal loop thing
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It was starting from $80. That bill of materials is getting out of control. Yeah, yeah, from $80 to $100
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I heard TC spent weeks negotiating the price of the metal loop thing
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Yeah, you know, I think. Forgetting that's even there. I don't think that most people are gonna go out
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and rush out to buy this case, but you know who is gonna buy the case? People who have lost their case
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People who need a new case because they broke it or something. So I would guess that's gonna be the audience
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that goes out and buys a case for $99 instead of paying for a brand new set of AirPods
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Like, if you already have AirPods Pro 2 and you just need the case. People who like USB-C more than they like money
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Well, all right, well, there you go. Maybe a good stocking stuffer. If you know someone that really loves USB-C cases
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or has a broken case, now you have an option. Let's move on
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Oh, gee, here's a case. Here's a case for your AirPods. I've gotten worse things, Lewis
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I've gotten worse things. My aunt used to give me banana hammock underwear
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Would you rather get a AirPods USB-C case or banana hammock underwear
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I guess there's probably a better trade-in value on the case. Actually, as an Italian travel fan
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maybe you're into the banana hammocks. That's a pretty popular look over there, isn't it
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We need to hire a PI to follow Lewis to Italy and just snap some telephoto images of him at the beach
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That's all I'm saying. Yeah, I don't go to the beach. Because, no, you just do it around town
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You're chained? Yeah, yeah, that's right. Nice, nice spin there. No, no
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Oh, come on, Luigi. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. When in Rome
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All right
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