AirPods Max Launched Five Years Ago Today

Apple's AirPods Max launched 5 years agone today, marking the company's archetypal propulsion into the high-end over-ear headphones marketplace nether its ain marque name.


Rumors astir Apple's enactment connected a brace of high-end headphones, astatine the clip believed to beryllium called the "AirPods Studio," heated up passim 2020. They were announced abruptly via a somewhat unexpected press release connected December 8, 2020 and went connected merchantability the aforesaid day. Orders started arriving to customers 1 week aboriginal connected Tuesday, December 15.

The ‌AirPods Max‌ connection galore fashionable AirPods features specified arsenic the H1 chip, casual pairing, Active Noise Cancellation, Transparency mode, automatic switching, and Spatial Audio with dynamic caput tracking, but successful a premium over-ear plan for the archetypal time. They besides connection a headband made of a flexible mesh canopy, replaceable magnetic earcups, a Digital Crown for carnal measurement controls, a fastener for switching betwixt ANC and Transparency, and a Smart Case for retention and to enactment the headphones into a debased powerfulness state.

Demand for the ‌AirPods Max‌ was precocious instantly aft launch, with shipping estimates that stretched retired respective months. Initial reviews of AirPods Max were favorable, applauding the headphones for being "more than capable to vie with different high-end headphones" successful presumption of plan and dependable quality. While the recommended retail terms remains astatine $549, the ‌AirPods Max‌ are often available with discounts of implicit $100.

The ‌AirPods Max‌ person besides been taxable to disapproval since their launch, including for their terms relative to rival sets of high-end over-ear headphones, the design of the Smart Case, condensation wrong the earcups, poor artillery life (something that was aboriginal fixed via a bundle update), ANC spot seemingly being reduced implicit time, the over-head canopy's mediocre durability, and the agelong play successful which the instrumentality has been near without meaningful hardware update.

Last year, Apple refreshed the AirPods Max's enactment of colour options and swapped the Lightning larboard for USB-C, but determination were nary different changes. Since the changes were truthful minor, Apple does not look to see the "new" exemplary a second-generation.
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