Overpriced company acquired by the overprice masters. Nice.

Beats' streaming services was that big in the first place?!

What a waste of cash.

What I'm wondering is who the hell buys Beats at full price? I'd only buy them at a fraction of the cost, that's the only way they're comparable. IIRC the earbuds I got were $200 at the time, I got them from $40 from my local computer shop (NCIX) who sold used ones packaged as new. I exchanged it thinking I got a new pair but that one turned out to be used too. So next I directly did an RMA with Monster. They contacted NCIX (which was an official reseller of Monster products) and some manager got upset and called me rather pissed off asking why I would report them to Monster. I basically told him his shop screwed up so I had to RMA it directly and I ended up having to pay for shipping to Monster. The manager then offered to reimburse me for the shipping and he did. NCIX blamed Monster, Monster blamed NCIX. The end. TL;DR - Monster/Beats prodcuts suck unless you can get them at 1/5th the retail price and even then legit resellers will sometimes sell used ones. NCIX also sucks.

Trust me, I'm a doctor. Love the way I summed this whole thing up in a 5 word sentence. /goes to pat self on the back.

Full price? HTC knew Beats' price (well, 51% of the price) back then: $300-ish million. Heh...for $200, getting a similarly priced Shure, Etymotic, or Ultimate Ears will drown the Beats down the deepest river. If there's a $200 Skullcandy buds I'm pretty sure it'll beat Beats as well. :P

Not to mention audiotechnica or sennheiser stuff. I really cannot comprehend how such a terrible brand of headsets that have dogturdspunkgargle reproduction by ANY TEST manage to get overvalued so much. I guess, in a way, it's a match made in heaven; Overpriced, over-marketed garbage-hardware company buying another overpriced, over-marketed garbage-hardware company. Makes perfect sense, now.

Wonder when Apple patents hearing sound through devices placed on and in your ears there new ihear system more sound than you can hear only on ihear Next device will be isee glasses that help you see and do more