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I use headphones a lot, and I break headphone cords all the time. Going wireless prevents this and once we get to Bluetooth 5, there will be no reason to use anything else.
For all the hysteria about losing the headphone jack, I have a iPhone 6s with the jack and I honestly never use it. I have a Bluetooth earpiece for calls and audiobooks, and a Bluetooth dual ear piece with ear hooks for exercise and music. It's just easier to manage without the cord.
I don't get ear buds. They're awful. Beyond awful. Over the ear headphones are where it's at regardless of the bulk of them. If you like sound you're selling yourself short audio quality wise with ear buds. That's not an opinion, it's fact.
If there was a question whether Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s AirPod wireless headphones would be adapted by consumers, the answer appears to be an ear-rattling yes.
Since the wireless earbuds went on sale December 13, Apple has become an instant leader in the online wireless headphone market and now accounts for 26 percent of sales in the sector, according to data released this week by digital commerce analysts Slice Intelligence.
AirPod Success By The Numbers
As a whole, 75 percent of headphones sold online in the month of December were wireless, Slice said.
Apple accounts for another 15.4 percent of the sector, according to Slice, due to its ownership of the Beats brand, which led the sector prior to the introduction of AirPod.