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Be careful to look at the photos of AirPods Pro in your circle of friends in the next few days. Perhaps one of the production sites is called “Huaqiang North.”

According to the news of a digital product supplier, the first batch of AirPods Pro can be shipped as soon as November 5, divided into two models with noise reduction and no noise reduction. The price is 400 yuan per unit. And 330 yuan.

In fact, it’s only a week since Apple’s genuine AirPods Pro came out.

On October 28th, US local time, Apple’s latest wireless headset AirPods Pro met with consumers for the first time. It features active noise reduction, transparent mode, IPX4 resistance to water and sweat, and its appearance becomes more compact. “Pea shooter” with replaceable silicone earplugs.

A both internal and external upgrades have also raised its price – 1999 yuan / Taiwan, nearly a quarter more expensive than AirPods II.

This is probably another small climax of Apple products during the year. The evaluation videos of the technology media have set their own “real incense”, and some users who have just started the second generation of AirPods are complaining. The oxen who lurked in the tech circle for a long time, quietly put the spot price of AirPods Pro at 2,200 yuan – “Sister, this is hired to go to the scene to buy it.”

But all this heat seems to be catching up with a raging cottage event that took place at Huaqiang North in Shenzhen at the moment.

The evolutionary history of simulation products: from the shape to the likeness

“The mold has been opened and is being tested.” On the second day of the release of AirPods Pro, Huaqiang North’s digital product distributors put the cottage version on the sales schedule.

But at the time they were still waiting for further news from the manufacturers: the time for the sale of the products was varied, saying “a few days”, “half a month” and “one month”; pricing is also unknown, only one of them The agent gives an estimate of 300 yuan or so.

From the latest news delivery time of the interface journalists, this speed is indeed too fast. According to an analysis by digital bloggers, the reason behind this is that the original 3D drawings were sold out as early as August this year. This imitation has been crouched for two or three months.

The cottage AirPods has a long history, and its evolutionary history is like a marathon that keeps running.

Beijing time On September 8, 2016, the original AirPods authentic was released with the iPhone 7 at the Apple Autumn New Product Launch. In the middle of 2017, roughly ten months later, the first generation of cottage AirPods appeared in Huaqiang North and was also available on e-commerce platforms such as Taobao.

At this time, the price of the earphone is only tens of yuan, and it is still a simple imitation of the appearance of AirPods, which can be recognized as a cottage product at a glance. Functionally, it can only be manually connected to the iPhone 7 via Bluetooth, and it has functions that are not available in the first generation AirPods such as answering, hanging up, and suspending.

After about one year later, in August 2018, Gaofei AirPods appeared one after another and began to sell in Taobao stores, micro-business platforms and second-hand platforms. At this time, in addition to the details of workmanship, lighting charging line and other details, its shape is almost the same as the genuine AirPods, you need to carefully check to distinguish between true and false.

Although the connection method is the same as that of a normal Bluetooth headset, there is no automatic pop-up window, but the price has been raised to between 100-200 yuan.

In early 2019, the market ushered in the imitation of AirPods, and the media had to publish a lot of articles about the authenticity of AirPods. In addition to the appearance has been extremely realistic (the outer packaging is still different), the function of opening the pop-up window, viewing the power and so on have been copied, and the price has increased slightly by several tens of dollars.

And with the official release of AirPods 2 on March 20, 2019, its high imitations will be in just three months.Landing in the market. In addition to the original features, the function of voice wake-up Siri has also been cracked, and some high imitations have also achieved that the headset display icon is consistent with the original. The highest price on Taobao comes at 250-300 yuan, while the price for micro-business is 400-500 yuan.

In this period, Huaqiang North also encountered Waterloo, but quickly reversed the situation. Some time ago, iPhone11 came out, iOS13 followed, and an urgent notice was spread between the headsets of Huaqiang North. A large number of cottages AirPods could not open the box and view the power.

According to the news that I love the audio network from the supply chain, the reason behind this is that iOS13 changed some of the headset code to cause the above failure.

However, just a few days later, most of the imitations on the market returned to normal, and everyone thought that the “blocking upgrade” turned into nothing.

Evolution is not over yet. In the past two days, the digital blogger “Ma Yu Yu” released a video at Station B, admonishing everyone that “All functions of AirPods have been cracked by Huaqiang North.”

According to the video, in the past, the name of the headset device can be directly changed in the iPhone settings. It is regarded as a necessary and sufficient condition for authenticating the headset, but this condition will no longer be established after October 23. Not only that, but the functions of customizing the left and right ears and the shortcut operation, voice callout Siri and positioning have also been taken by Huaqiang North.

Not only the shape and function are approaching the original, but the stability of the simulated AirPods is also improving.

A digital retail store owner told the interface journalist that the first batch of cargo failure rate he entered was actually high, about 50%, but