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> I don't think so. [...] They were fashionable.

I think you do think so. Describing them as "fashionable" is just endorsing my remark that from an engineering perspective Beats brings nothing of value. I was being very charitable when I said "mediocre headphones", the engineering behind Beats certainly had no value for Apple. And even today the most valuable part of the engineering behind a pair of Beats is Apple's W chip. I know I said engineering quite a few times but I want the focus of my comment to be clear.



But the headphones business that Beats had built up wasn’t somehow irrelevant. It was the main attraction, although not for any technological edge certainly.




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