Apple is stuffed with surprises currently.
Final week, the corporate launched its least expensive laptop computer ever, the MacBook Neo, priced at $499 for college students with Apple’s training low cost. (Non-education folks can pay $599 for the colourful funds machine.)
However simply 5 days after Neo arrived, Apple made an sudden announcement: Its most costly over-the-ear headphones are getting a brand new chip. The AirPods Max 2 will go on sale March 25 for $549. Which means it is extra pricey for a pupil to purchase these headphones than it’s to purchase a MacBook. (Alas, Apple does not provide an training low cost on AirPods.)
Watch this: Apple Surprises With AirPods Max 2 (and Why Does MacBook Neo Price Much less?)
When the associated fee for Apple’s headphones rivals that of a Mac machine, it is clear we’re in new territory. How can a MacBook be that low cost? And why do the AirPods Max cost that much?
In at present’s episode of One Extra Factor, which you’ll be able to watch within the video embedded above, I’m going over the brand new options of the AirPods Max 2 and put among the pricing into perspective to assist kind it out. Plus, there are different issues to think about relating to the place every of the merchandise sit in Apple’s lineup. It is also value noting the lengths Apple went to chop prices on the laptop computer.
And if you happen to’re wishing Apple had extra for the Max 2, contemplate that the tech large could possibly be extra centered on another kind of AirPod coming later.
In the meantime, Apple shops around the globe are hosting surprise events to rejoice Apple’s fiftieth anniversary. It began final Friday, when I experienced some of that surprise and delight myself at an Alicia Keys concert inside New York’s Grand Central Terminal.
Perhaps you will run into some Apple surprises of your personal this 12 months. When you do seize some enjoyable, send me a note. I might like to share your movies on a future episode.
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