AirPods (2nd Generation) | $90 | Amazon
AirPods (3rd Generation) | $140 | Amazon
AirPods Pro | $179 | Amazon
Apple’s aging 2nd generation AirPods are on sale right now for a whopping 43% off, putting them right at $90. That’s just $1 short of the lowest price we’ve seen, if you want to believe what the folks down at Big History tell you. These are your standard AirPods—they have long stalks, you control them with taps or summon Siri with your mouth words, and their H1 chip allows you to do fancy automatic switching between Apple devices. You won’t, however, get features like spatial audio, which makes it seem as though the audio you’re listening to is all around you, and when you watch movies (on compatible Apple devices), it can anchor that audio in place, so that when you move your head, the sound stays put. It’s a neat feature, but not everyone likes it, and for those people who fit in the overlapping section of the Venn diagram that covers “people whose ears these AirPods fit in” and “people who hate spatial audio,” this is a pretty sweet deal. Really it’s a sweet deal on some backup AirPods anyway, inching their price into the impulse buy territory for plenty of people, including me on a good day.
For the rest of you, Amazon also has the AirPods Pro and the AirPods (3rd Generation) on sale for $179 and $140, respectively. That’s a much bigger discount on the AirPods Pro—a full $70, in fact—and with that you get all that stuff I mentioned above, plus noise cancellation. AirPods (3rd Generation) do away with noise cancellation, but otherwise offer everything the AirPods Pro do, and $140 beats the lowest price we’ve seen on them by $19.
Maybe now you can afford some AirPods and stop lying about your affinity for wired earbuds, you poverty-stricken nobody! I’m kidding, of course. That would be a horrible, incredibly tone deaf thing to say, or think, about people who don’t have AirPods, and no self-respecting writer would ever publish something like that, right?
This story was originally published by Wes Davis on 12/09/2021 and updated with new information on 12/16/2021.
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