{"id":36977,"date":"2022-09-08T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36977"},"modified":"2022-09-08T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:38:17","slug":"airpods-3-with-lightning-only-charging-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/airpods-3-with-lightning-only-charging-case\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPods 3 With Lightning-Only Charging Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/09\/07\/apple-launches-airpods-3-with-lightning-case\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/09\/07\/apple-launches-airpods-3-with-lightning-case\/\">\n<p>Pricing for the third-generation AirPods with a Lightning case is set at $169 in the United States, compared to $179 for the third-generation AirPods with a MagSafe case, so it seems like there is very limited value in choosing this new option.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s hard to believe Apple is adding a SKU with only a $10 difference. At first I thought maybe this was because they were discontinuing AirPods 2, but those are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/product\/MV7N2AM\/A\/airpods-with-charging-case\">still available<\/a> for $129. I&rsquo;ve grown to like wireless charging, but if you don&rsquo;t want it, why not save more money and get the AirPods 2, since the controls and case lid work better?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/airpods-pro-2022\/\">AirPods Pro 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/18\/airpods-3\/\">AirPods 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: Pricing for the third-generation AirPods with a Lightning case is set at $169 in the United States, compared to $179 for the third-generation AirPods with a MagSafe case, so it seems like there is very limited value in choosing this new option. It&rsquo;s hard to believe Apple is adding a SKU with only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-09-08T18:38:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"14520325-e9c8-45c4-920b-abb07f8742d9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-09-08T18:38:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AFFIDJenIRcSSC6uwf4dC2Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1422,108,88,365],"class_list":["post-36977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-earbuds","tag-lightning","tag-magsafe"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36978,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36977\/revisions\/36978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}