I predict that Apple will be smiling all the way to the bank as it sells replacement airpods.
The Airpods will warn you when one goes missing, so hopefully you’ll go back and pick it up from where you dropped it. I’d say its vital to keep them in their case at all times, not like I do with my earbuds coiled up in my pocket. I’m still plenty happy with my iPhone 6 Plus and have no intention of upgrading until I have a reason to.
The Airpod’s shape is same as their previous wired EarPods. When I bought my I Phone 5, it came with those EarPods and due to the shape of my inner ear, they simply will NOT stay in my ears (yu need to have a bit of a flap at the lower part of the ear opening for the pod to “hook” onto. As soon as I take two steps they fall out.
I ended up buying a set of Klipsch X11i earphones - they sound 100x better (IMHO) that the Apple version - and they are lighter and they stay firmly in my ears!
The author is a fanboi; I, and countless others have seen these as the most idiotic, expensive geek crap ever, solving a problem that they themselves created at 50x the price. It will sell a lot of Androids.