I do wonder why I read these things sometimes but OMG there are some very ignorant keyboard warriors here.
As EVH said.. the price increase is Brexit, plain and simple. Apple are an american company who operate in dollars building things in china who are paid in dollars.. getting something like 15% less dollars to the pound is affecting EVERYTHING. You voted Brexit? Enjoy your inflation because it's coming across the board, I know people in tech, food, accessories etc and they are ALL preparing price increases now because their hedged dollars are running out.
The airpods.. don't like them? Don't buy them! There are millions of bluetooth options which are getting better and better all the time, it's so obvious you have an agenda if you choose to ignore the fact that Apple are a very small part of the overall headphone market (if you look past the "most popular" tag from the amount they include in box). If anything Apple have done the market a massive favour by going mainstream with a relatively (in comparison to motorola verve/bragi etc) cheap price. They're creating and turbocharging a market, nothing more. In fact I'd go so far as to say the airpods are more marketing than sales targeted.
Final point.. I'm afraid with a supply chain the likes of which Apple have now means secrets and surprises are nigh on impossible. You can have the product be available 2 or 3 months after the announcement or have leaks. Millions of people work on these things.. I'm surprised there's not more leaks, the past is the past and the death of one last thing is down to their success.
Oh yeah and moaning about no macs and ipads is like turning up to mcdonalds and complaining about the lack of a whopper. They'll be doing other events, they too are now massive categories so they either go on for hours or split it up, they'll come.. we all know they're coming.
