AirPods (2nd Generation) | $100 | Amazon
AirPods (3rd Generation) | $169 | Amazon
AirPods Pro | $180 | Amazon
Is it time to buy some AirPods? Lucky you, they’re on sale again! Apple’s aging 2nd generation AirPods are on sale right now for a whopping 37% off, putting them right at $100. That’s only $11 over 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. 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, inching their price into impulse buy territory for some people.
For the rest of you, Amazon also has the AirPods Pro and the AirPods (3rd Generation) on sale for $180 and $169, respectively. That’s a much bigger discount on the AirPods Pro—a full $69 (nice), 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. These two models are clearly the fancy AirPods for fancy lads and lasses and those in between, so if you have hats with feathers and sweatless brows, these are for you! I kid, of course—I used the AirPods Pro as a sweaty beer delivery person for a brewery, and they legitimately made my job easier and nicer.
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 02/08/2022.