Apple has quietly discontinued selling the Beats Pill+ as well as the Beddit Sleep Monitor from its online storefront.
Beddit, the Apple-owned sleep tracking and monitoring service, launched the Beddit Sleep Monitor 3.5 in late 2018, roughly a year and a half after the firm was acquired. Three years later, it’s no longer being sold.
Product listings for Beddit’s goods have disappeared from view on Apple’s U.S. website as well as a number of other countries, and attempts to buy the product from Beddit’s website also seem to fail to go through.
Before its removal from sale, the Beddit Sleep Monitor was available to purchase for $149.95. Though it is no longer available from Apple directly, it may still be purchasable from third-party retailers while stocks last.
At present, the Reddit companion app is still listed on the App Store. It’s thought that it will remain there to support customers who own the associated products.
The Beats+ Pill, which is produced by Apple subsidiary Beats, is also not available on Apple’s online storefront as well as the Beats website. The Beats website, in turn, now offers only earbuds and headphones.
The Beats Pill+ was introduced in 2015 as the first Bluetooth speaker from Beats since its acquisition by Apple. Priced at $230, it was a mid-sized speaker which recharged via Lightning.
It’s unknown if Beats will introduce new products to replace the latest departures. In the case of Beddit, Apple has looked into ways to improve sleep tracking, but hasn’t progressed any further hardware-wise beyond Beddit than the sleep tracking features built into the Apple Watch.
The Beats Pill+ also tends to competes with Apple’s HomePod mini as a compact speaker, albeit the Beats Pill+ offered portability that the HomePod mini doesn’t.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via AppleInsider and 9to5Mac