AirPods Market Share Dropped From 41 Percent to 29 Percent

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Mashable‘s Alex Perry writes how AirPods revolutionized the wireless earbud space but is currently falling behind.

AirPods market share dropped from 41 percent at the end of 2019 to 29 percent at the end of 2020, according to research firm Counterpoint. That’s still a substantial lead over everyone else, but it does point to what happened in the more than two years since the last AirPods update: Other companies made cheaper and better entry-level wireless earbuds, and consumers took notice.

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  1. Lee Dronick Subscriber 5 years ago

    “Other companies made cheaper and better entry-level wireless earbuds, and consumers took notice.”

    Or perhaps users have not yet replaced their AirPods.

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