{"id":586,"date":"2022-04-06T02:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T00:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/airpods-3-orders-reportedly-cut-by-over-30\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T02:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T00:25:26","slug":"airpods-3-orders-reportedly-cut-by-over-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/airpods-3-orders-reportedly-cut-by-over-30\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPods 3 orders reportedly cut by over 30%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">AirPods 3 orders reportedly cut by over 30%<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>Back in October, Apple made its new AirPods 3 official, following many months of leaks, rumors, and speculation. These being the newest in a line that started with the original AirPods, the first mainstream true wireless earbuds, you&#8217;d think that they&#8217;d be incredibly successful, sales-wise &#8211; but apparently not. <\/p>\n<p>According to famed analyst and connoisseur of all things Apple Ming-Chi Kuo, the AirPods 3 are part of a &#8220;failed product segmentation strategy&#8221; for Apple. Demand for them is allegedly &#8220;much weaker&#8221; than it is for the AirPods 2, and as such, Apple is said to have cut orders of AirPods 3 from its suppliers by over 30% for the second and third quarters of this year (April to September time frame). <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/22\/04\/airpods-3-orders-cut\/inline\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"AirPods 3 orders reportedly cut by over 30%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Apple may discontinue the original AirPods Pro immediately after the AirPods Pro 2 are going to be launched (sometime in the second half of this year), in order to avoid &#8220;repeating the same mistake&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The AirPods 2 have remained on sale after the AirPods 3 launched, and are still available to this day. Unsurprisingly, they&#8217;re also cheaper, by $50 &#8211; $129 compared to $179. This leaves the AirPods 3 in a weird middle ground between the AirPods 2 and the AirPods Pro &#8211; sure, the Pros are even more expensive, but at least they offer an in-ear fit and active noise cancelation. <\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re willing to speculate that those who want the ultimate Apple earbuds go for the Pros, while those who want a cheap pair of Apple earbuds pick the AirPods 2. Can you see the problem? <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mingchikuo\/status\/1511358915426263046\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/22\/04\/airpods-3-orders-cut\/-952x498w6\/gsmarena_000.jpg<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/airpods_3_orders_reportedly_cut_by_over_30-news-53852.php?rand=119<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirPods 3 orders reportedly cut by over 30% Back in October, Apple made its new AirPods 3 official, following many months of leaks, rumors, and speculation. These being the newest in a line that started with the original AirPods, the first mainstream true wireless earbuds, you&#8217;d think that they&#8217;d be incredibly successful, sales-wise &#8211; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}