Apple AirPods satisfaction at a remarkable 98% for customers

&gt; New Experian survey explores consumer satisfaction with AirPods and other voice-first hardware<p>&gt; Conversational user interfaces are now mainstream.<p>I really like my AirPods, but... this is a strange comment to make about them. The Siri integration &#x2F; audio controls is the most awkward part of using AirPods. Honestly really hoping they revisit in v2.

I don&#x27;t doubt the ergonomics are amazing, but it&#x27;s somewhat surprising to me that people are happy with such mediocre audio performance.

I can&#x27;t get the damn things to stay in my ears if I&#x27;m doing any physical activity beyond brisk walking. Working out in them is out of the question, so I&#x27;m still using my regular bluetooth headphones, and I looked quite comical running to catch the train with both hands over my ears so they wouldn&#x27;t fall out. I&#x27;m surprised only 1 out of every 50 people who bought Airpods are experiencing similar dissatisfaction.

AirPods are amazing. Best Apple product launch since the original iPhone.

I&#x27;d love to know why they&#x27;re <i>still</i> being sold at a 6 week delay. Tim Cook is really good at operations stuff, and this isn&#x27;t like Apple. They certainly know the demand is there by now.<p>Seems like the only possibilities are some sort of part shortage (maybe it&#x27;s really hard to get those tiny batteries) or a very high defect rate (there were rumors of that around launch).<p>I wonder how long this will last.

To any of they naysayers, I&#x27;d say survey the competition for AirPods. They are far beyond anything else available in terms of ergonomics and battery life for wireless earbuds. Audio quality is less of an issue in the first place if you&#x27;re talking about Bluetooth anyways. Audiophiles should stick with wired.

I&#x27;m confused, is this a new kind of blogspam?

Apple AirPods are the real deal. Best new Apple product in years.

And suddenly Apple&#x27;s usual marketing strategy makes a whole lot more sense.<p>Price it high enough that nobody who has to care about money would buy it, and make it crappy enough that nobody who cares about quality would buy it.<p>And, apparently, it seems the people who aren&#x27;t filtered by that will say anything is the second coming of christ as long as it comes in a shiny enough box.

My office has some really noisy people, so I wear my AirPods under a set of big ugly 3M ear protector 30dB earmuffs. Works great!

I&#x27;m curious as to why Airpods have 98% satisfaction rate? I don&#x27;t have a pair, but it seems like a lot of people I know who have them feel similarly.<p>Is it because the battery life is good and they connect super easily and stay connected? Or is there some other feature that pushes people over the top?

i belive it. i love love love mine. best purchase of 2016

how is it on android? or mac? or windows?

Do the comments on this seem a bit weird?<p>See: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;AZe6fCF.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;AZe6fCF.png</a>

I recently evaluated AirPods, Beats x and Bose QC 35. The Bose won in the feature depts, esp. NC and multipoint BT. I don&#x27;t care what brand it is so long as it works well.

Looks like some advanced level trolling to me. The only way I can imagine 98% of a group being satisfied with such a product is some variant of Stockholm syndrome.<p>Some days it feels like the &quot;Next &quot;Great&quot; Apple product will be ... a place where you can work for free, to benefit Apple. And then we&#x27;ll hear the usual suspects extolling the benefits of that.<p>(warning, audio geek, also wireless protocol geek, and also their damned overpriced P.O.S. don&#x27;t even fit in my ears &gt;.&gt;)

People are satisfied because they need to justify their purchase. If the airpods costed much less, im sure we would have people complaining about audio quality and other minor issues, but when you pay that much you overlook the little things to justify your purchase.