A wad of new AirPods – admit a cheaper set targeted at a $ 99 price decimal point , and the long - awaited second edition of the AirPods Max – is in the pipeline and slated for a launch in 2024 or 2025 , consort to Ming - Chi Kuo .
“ The next - genesis AirPods will likely start mass load in [ the 2d half of 2024 ] or [ the first half of 2025 ] , ” Kuo wrote , adding that the launches would include abudget rig of AirPodsand the second - gen AirPods Max .
( 4/5)The next - coevals AirPods will belike begin mass consignment in 2H24 or 1H25 , including more affordable AirPods ( with Apple targeting a cost of $ 99 ) and young AirPods Max , which will be assembled by Luxshare ICT and Hon Teng .
Theoriginal AirPods Maxcame out in December 2020 , more than two years ago , and learned person have speculated ever since about when Apple will release a successor . In dividing line with the company ’s flagship iPhones , which are refreshen once a year , its iPads ( usually every year to 18 month ) , or its more popular Macs ( every two years or less ) , the AirPods have frequently been left alone for two and a one-half years or more with no annunciation whatsoever .
This is all the more mystifying because the AirPods merchandise tune , which in cosmopolitan has been exceptionally moneymaking for Apple , has suffereddips in salesas private models age . It ’s hard to see why Apple does n’t pre - emptively stop this by update the devices every two years or less , but there ’s no sign that the troupe will alter its policy , particularly for the agio Max modeling .
The news of a budget set of AirPods , however , potentially price as small as $ 99 , is extremely interesting . This is n’t a completely new hearsay , following a reportearlier this month , and reports from 2020 that referred toAirPods Pro Liteas being in the grapevine at Apple , but it ’s reassuring to get corroboration from a reservoir as trusted as Kuo . While Apple still sells the second - gen AirPods for $ 129 , the so - called AirPods Lite would give access to a market Apple has n’t previously tapped — substitute $ 100 earbuds that are n’t just thin out elderly simulation . Cheaper AirPods could also stimulate interest in Apple ’s earbuds during the lengthy postponement between updates — although it fathom like we ’ll be waiting for the Lite example so long that the others will be delinquent for a refresh at the same time .
