nobody wants those. AirPods are expensive, ugly earbuds that you have to recharge for some reason, and the watch is just a way for your phone to distract you more frequently.
The Apple Watch is the world's most popular watch.
AirPods have exploded in popularity among youth as a status symbol.
Both are selling relatively well, even if you may think they're inferior products.
[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/02/apple-watch-1q19-market...
That's a lot of nobodies.
(compared to Mac $5.8B, iPad $5.0B)
I guess AirPods work for some, but I wouldn’t touch them.
The Butterly keyboard is the only thing I can think is genuinely, objectively, "bad", due to the reliability issues, but it's hard to say it taints the whole MacBook Pro. I use one everyday, have since they were released, and it's a great laptop for me.
Either way, I'm mostly commenting on the ever-popular and lazy comment that equates Apple's success solely to marketing. Apple's products are successful because they're good products, marketed well. Yes, they're marketed well, but that marketing is only effective because the products being marketed are genuinely "good".
It’s some of the newer models that strip off functionality for aesthetics , or at least slimness at any and all costs, that turn many of us away.
I use a smartwatch and as a result my phone stays in my pocket a lot more.
No thanks.
Regular corded earbuds are a tolerable pocket size alternative to a set of studio cans, but that’s as far as I would go. I miss the old Walkman style headsets that had decent size drivers, but still fit into a backpack or jacket pocket.
Downvoters gonna downvote, I guess.