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Yep, this is a new version of AirPods Pro 2. I say it's a new version of AirPods Pro 2 because
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they did not come out with AirPods Pro 3. This is a revision of the existing model and they didn't
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change the number even though there's a few new things. It has the USB-C charging case
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an improved dust resistance, and if you pair it with Apple Vision Pro you get lossless audio
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apparently. I don't think anybody has like confirmed with Apple that you don't get that
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if you still have AirPods Pro 2 with a lightning case. So I don't know if they actually made
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you know, changes to the buds themselves like that. I actually saw that, uh, you won't believe
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it, uh, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg said that he is, Apple has confirmed to him that it does not
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work. Yeah, okay. Which, which is like, you know, did they make some little tweak? They must have
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made some kind of hardware tweak. Yeah, so just to reiterate for those of you who didn't catch it, so
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the AirPods Pro 2, the newer version, are, they obviously have the USB-C capability in the case
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but they're the only ones that will give you lossless audio with the Apple Vision Pro
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The previous AirPods Pro 2 with the lightning case do not do that according to Gurman
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So if you're planning on getting the Vision Pro then, I mean, does it matter? I don't know. Are
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you going to be able to tell that it's lossless? I don't know, man. 98% of people probably can't
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tell, but if you're spending $3,500 on the Vision Pro, then you won't, it doesn't matter if you can
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tell. You just need to know. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, um, unlike when Apple made the revision
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to the original AirPods with the wireless charging case and made the wireless charging case, uh
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backwards compatible and sold it on the online store separately. You can't do that this time
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If you want the new USB-C charging case, you have to buy the whole set for $250, which is
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kind of weird. Like what makes them incompatible with each other that way that they can't
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sell the case separately? Well, that's an easy one. Apple's marketing department
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Apple's marketing department made them incompatible. Apple's bean counting department. Yeah. They want to make sure that people have an ample, uh, motivation to buy the new..
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This is just me. But is that going to work on it? Who cares that much about USB-C? They're
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going to spend $250 just to get USB... Like, I don't think that would work
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Well, I think that the upgrade here is so minimal, um, that a lot of people probably won't care
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They would make more money if they made it backwards compatible because then they'd be selling the $69 charging case. I think eventually I would be surprised if eventually they did not
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sell the case. They just don't sell it yet. Like in the next three months, I would, I wouldn't be
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surprised if they just quietly released the updated case on their website. Cause it really
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doesn't make that much of a difference or it doesn't make that much sense for them to not do
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that. But that's a possibility I hadn't considered. Anyways, that's pretty much all there is to say
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Okay. If you want to buy AirPods right now, it's a good time to buy AirPods
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Well, I would wait. If you're going to buy AirPods, I would, I would wait till
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November because at this point we're so close to Black Friday that you're going to start seeing deals galore, you know, in the next couple of months
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