I was a late comer to the first gen of AirPods.  I bought them in summer 2019.  I liked them well enough.  Decent sound quality and battery life.  Fit in my ear well enough (Apple’s earbuds have always fit my ear well).  My only complaint would be I thought the stems were a little long and people wearing them look a little silly.

Then on a visit to my local Apple store last November, they had the Air Pods Pro in stock and although I had didn’t need them, I had a gift card balance burning a hole in my Apple Wallet which took the sting out of the $250 price tag.  I’ve been using them everyday since November and here is what I like about them (even a new feature I just discovered today at the airport):

1.  Looks better than first gen

2. Sound quality good

3.  Noise cancelling is great for an in ear headphone

4.  The power charge notification you get when you have your phone out and you open the case (this is the feature I just discovered.  I noticed it show up on my phone, but I didn’t put the two together).

My gripes:

I don’t really have any.  The only thing of a minor annoyance, but is probably a safety feature if I cared to look up, is I get a weird electrical interference noise if I have them in my ear and I lay my ear against the pillow causing the earbud to get pushed into my ear.

I haven’t gotten this much enjoyment out of a personal sound device since probably the first iPod I purchased or my Sony Personal Sony Disc Player back in the day.

My favorite use case for them are phone calls and especially Skype calls which I can forward the number to my phone and then tget up and walk around the office on long business calls.