{"id":32260,"date":"2024-03-21T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/32260\/apples-2023-airpods-pro-2nd\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:15:11","slug":"apples-2023-airpods-pro-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=32260","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s 2023 AirPods Pro (2nd Gen) with USB-C are now more affordable than ever before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s 2023 AirPods Pro (2nd Gen) with USB-C are now more affordable than ever before\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With the extra-durable Jabra Elite 8 Active frequently available at discounted prices of $150 or $160, Samsung&#39;s non-Pro Galaxy Buds 2 are currently $80, and Apple&#39;s Beats Studio Buds have gone from $150 to $100 most often.  days, you may be wondering if the AirPods Pro 2 are still worth your time and hard-earned money.<\/p>\n<div>The answer, of course, is&#8230; not so much at the list price of $249, but if you can get these bad boys for $70 less, they&#39;re certainly still pretty tempting.  This is a discount we haven&#39;t seen offered by a major US retailer since the second-generation AirPods <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/pro\/\"   title=\"Pro\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Pro<\/a> received a September 2023 refresh.<\/div>\n<div>Until earlier today, that is, when Amazon and Best Buy suddenly started charging 28% less than usual for noise-cancelling AirPods Pro 2 with a USB-C case.  Oddly enough, this very <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/exciting\/\"   title=\"exciting\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">exciting<\/a> and completely unprecedented new deal is not being announced as part of Amazon&#39;s Big Spring sale or any similar Best Buy special event.<\/div>\n<div>But we&#39;re pretty sure the $70 discount won&#39;t last very long, either disappearing completely once demand increases or being downgraded to the $50 or $60 available many times in the past.  This means you&#39;ll have to decide pretty quickly whether these are the best wireless earbuds for you, both from a price and capabilities perspective.<\/div>\n<div>Originally released in 2022 in a &#8220;traditional&#8221; Lightning version, the second-generation AirPods Pro moved to a more modern USB-C charging standard after a year while keeping all of its other specs and features unchanged.  This isn&#39;t necessarily a bad thing, of course, and if you&#39;re a die-hard Apple fan, you might even have a hard time considering an alternative to this hugely popular product.<\/div>\n<p>Active noise cancellation, Transparency, spatial audio technology, Apple H2 connectivity, and battery life are all very hard to beat for <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/iphone\/\"   title=\"iPhone\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">iPhone<\/a> users, and if you hurry, the equation of Value for money also seems perfect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s 2023 AirPods Pro (2nd Gen) with USB-C are now more affordable than ever before\u060c With the extra-durable Jabra Elite 8 Active frequently available at discounted prices of $150 or $160, Samsung&#39;s non-Pro Galaxy Buds 2 are currently $80, and Apple&#39;s Beats Studio Buds have gone from $150 to $100 most often. days, you may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2735,390,450,1068,333,73,2343],"class_list":["post-32260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-2nd","tag-affordable","tag-airpods","tag-apples","tag-gen","tag-pro","tag-usbc"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32262,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32260\/revisions\/32262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}