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Apple Put Live Translation in Cheap Earbuds and Ruined the Upsell

Apple brought active noise cancellation and live speech translation to the $129 AirPods 5, then botched the lineup with an absurd twenty-dollar upsell.

Cass Iverson · 2h ago · 5 min read

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Apple Put Live Translation in Cheap Earbuds and Ruined the Upsell

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