Bose has decided to pull the plug on its Sport Open Earbuds, a set of wireless earbuds that sit on your ear instead of inside it. Two years have passed since the product's debut. Bose's Sport Open Earbuds are discounted to $119 until all of the inventory has been sold.
The Sport Open Earbuds were the first to offer something completely new. They are placed on top of your ears with a piece of the C-shaped device wrapped around the back of your ears. When you don't wear earbuds, the design lets you hear the outside world in a clear way.
There are some drawbacks to it. The earhook style can sometimes interfere with glasses, and in most outdoor situations where the earbuds are primarily intended to be worn, external sounds often overwhelm the audio coming from the earbuds The earbuds had to be charged via a proprietary cradle, but they didn't have their own battery for on-the-go charging.
Bose isn't giving up on the idea completely. It is difficult to say how much demand there is for Bose Frames, which are glasses with a speaker embedded in their limbs.
The open earbud space was abandoned by Bose. Bose had a monopoly on the idea after the Sport Open Earbuds. In the last few months, competitors have shown up, like the Wearable Stereo from Oladance.
We compared the two new open earbud models to the Bose Sport Open and found them to be superior in a number of areas.
Allway, a maker of affordable personal audio products, has decided to skip its original plans to promote its new open earbuds via a crowdfunded campaign and go straight to retail sales via its own website.
Is Bose giving up too soon on the category it helped to create? It wouldn't be the first time if that's the case. The Soundwear Companion Speaker is no longer made by Bose despite the fact that Sony and many other companies make similar devices.
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