{"id":1002222,"date":"2026-04-10T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002222"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:49:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:19:39","slug":"apples-airpods-max-2-arent-a-worthy-sequel-to-the-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/apples-airpods-max-2-arent-a-worthy-sequel-to-the-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s AirPods Max 2 aren\u2019t a worthy sequel to the original"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc.\u2019s AirPods Max 2 \u2014 the first substantial update to the company\u2019s $549 headphones \u2014 don\u2019t represent an upgrade-worthy sequel but should intrigue customers looking to buy the brand\u2019s over-ear offering for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>Apple released the first AirPods Max in 2020, hoping to replicate the enormous success of its wireless earbuds in a different style. They had a striking design with aluminum-clad ear cups, removable fabric ear pads and a mesh headband \u2014 as well as a price tag that led to them becoming a status symbol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc.\u2019s AirPods Max 2 \u2014 the first substantial update to the company\u2019s $549 headphones \u2014 don\u2019t represent an upgrade-worthy sequel but should intrigue customers looking to buy the brand\u2019s over-ear offering for the first time. Apple released the first AirPods Max in 2020, hoping to replicate the enormous success of its wireless earbuds in a different style. They had a striking design with aluminum-clad ear cups, removable fabric ear pads and a mesh headband \u2014 as well as a price tag that led to them becoming a status symbol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}