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The APP2’s are good and all, they’re my daily driver ahead of the likes of the B&O H95 simply because of ease of use and lack of connectivity issues.
I think the real issue though is that the XM line has simply been greatly overstated in terms of sound quality. They’re just not that good but they’ve been marketed and hyped over the past 5 years by influencers and YT reviews as in and around the top tier in BT earphones for the average person’s when they’re simply not.
Hmm most people I know who get XM line, it's because their noise cancelling works super great on the train. I haven't heard that many people hype the sound quality.
I did have one person who I have my old XM3s to tell me she thought they sounded better than her airpods, but "better" might have just meant "different", I don't know which model airpods she had (1st gen pros, I think), and everyone's preferences are different, etc.
And anyway apple only supports most of their features on iphones. Even if I had an iphone, I would want to reward moves like that.
I think the salient point to remember is that both the XM line and the apple ones have batteries that will die in just a few short years.