Apple’s AirPods Max 2 will be available to order starting March 25 in midnight, starlight, orange, purple and blue, and begin shipping in early April. Announced out of the blue on March 16, the new over-ear AirPods were greeted with mixed reactions on social-media platforms, with some pundits excited to see them finally getting a meaningful upgrade after several years. Others lamented that they cost $549 when Apple’s new Macbook Neo — a full-fledged laptop — could be had for as little as $500 with Apple’s education-pricing discounts.
The AirPods Max’s high price was a source of contention when the original model launched in 2020, but that didn’t stop people from buying them and helped set a new benchmark for pricing for premium noise-canceling headphones (top models from Bose, Sony and Bowers & Wilkins have all received price hikes in recent years). The list price for the AirPods Max 2 hasn’t changed from the
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