[untog]

No doubt Apple will have made a great product but that doesn't oblige you to buy them! What would the Airpod Max bring you that your existing Airpod Pros don't? What problem will they solve? It sounds like you're just buying things because Apple decided to sell them.

[tartoran]

Buying apple also buys status

[bitcharmer]

Excuse me, what?! How do you define status? Owning apple gear?

[lethologica]

And what's wrong with that if you can afford it like the OP said they could?

[boogies]

Waste. Physical electronic waste and opportunity cost.

For example, these cost more money than an average resident of Sierra Leone earns in a month. You could donate to feed their family.

Or for $550, you could spend $300 on buying a Kenyan family 5 sheep, $100 on gifting 5 Serbian women a month of literacy classes each, and $150 on 15 rides to school for refugee children in Egypt. Taxes not included.¹

¹https://cwsbestgift.org/

[untog]

You're asking what's wrong with wasting money?