Why don't Apple put high quality earphones with their products?

Question

When you listen to music on a pair of Sennheiser earphones you really realise that the Apple ones a bad quality.

With the high quality of other Apple products you really would think they would put better quality earphones with their products.

Answer 1

Two reasons. The number one being cost. They sell millions of phones and ipods, if they make the ear buds just a little better and they cast a dollar or two, multiply that by how many devices they sell in just one year, that's millions of dollars. The second reason is that a lot of people already own good buds or headphones and will simply toss these in a drawer someplace. That why for example entry level dSLR cameras come with a lens, but pro dSLRs are usually sold with no lens, pros already own the glass they need.

Answer 2

Because they aren't selling your headphones, they are selling you the product. If they put a quality set of headphones in every box, they'd have to increase the price.

Answer 3

Cost is the only factor in that decision.



And Sennheiser is crap compared to Audio Technica, Beyerdynamic, and Grado.