Thunderdolt
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I remember going into a Bose retail store at their peak. It was depressing and disappointing. It's hard to imagine that the experience got any better in the 15 years that followed.
On the one hand, it's a wonder that the stores weren't canned a decade ago.
On the other hand, it's been clear for a long time that they have some pretty stupid and pigheaded folks steering the ship - and the company has been suffering for it. They've been paying the NFL how much each year for exclusive sideline use? Motorola offered $50MM and got turned down by the NFL, so let's wager that Bose has been paying and average of $75MM/yr since 2014. That's equivalent to a million QC35s since 2014. Does anyone actually think a million football fans saw the coaches wearing Bose-branded headsets in games and decided to go out and buy QC35s in response? LOL.
At the same time, Bose is getting their technological ass handed to them by companies who aren't [currently] staffed with dinosaurs. I haven't used my QC35s ever since I got my Airpod Pros - outside of letting friends do side-by-side demos to see how bad the QC35s are in comparison. As the multi-decade self-proclaimed leader in ANC, shouldn't Bose have been the clear winner compared to some fruit company making its very first ANC product? It's the same story with another bread & butter product from Bose: the Wave radio. It was brilliant when it came out in 1993. 27 years later, the product is essentially unchanged while a slew of competitors (Sonos and Apple, for example) offer markedly better sound quality with massively expanded consumer-friendly feature sets, and they do it for the same price or less.
Bose is basically the undisputed leader of 1xRTT while the rest of the world is playing with LTE. It's time for them to either move to 5G or just retire.
On the one hand, it's a wonder that the stores weren't canned a decade ago.
On the other hand, it's been clear for a long time that they have some pretty stupid and pigheaded folks steering the ship - and the company has been suffering for it. They've been paying the NFL how much each year for exclusive sideline use? Motorola offered $50MM and got turned down by the NFL, so let's wager that Bose has been paying and average of $75MM/yr since 2014. That's equivalent to a million QC35s since 2014. Does anyone actually think a million football fans saw the coaches wearing Bose-branded headsets in games and decided to go out and buy QC35s in response? LOL.
At the same time, Bose is getting their technological ass handed to them by companies who aren't [currently] staffed with dinosaurs. I haven't used my QC35s ever since I got my Airpod Pros - outside of letting friends do side-by-side demos to see how bad the QC35s are in comparison. As the multi-decade self-proclaimed leader in ANC, shouldn't Bose have been the clear winner compared to some fruit company making its very first ANC product? It's the same story with another bread & butter product from Bose: the Wave radio. It was brilliant when it came out in 1993. 27 years later, the product is essentially unchanged while a slew of competitors (Sonos and Apple, for example) offer markedly better sound quality with massively expanded consumer-friendly feature sets, and they do it for the same price or less.
Bose is basically the undisputed leader of 1xRTT while the rest of the world is playing with LTE. It's time for them to either move to 5G or just retire.