Apple patents all sorts of weird shit. 99% of it never gets made. They just want the money from patent litigation and licensing.
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I have earbuds that don’t need to be charged and use a cable for easy connectivity and sound quality.
You know what's easier than a cable? No cable.
I'll give you sound quality, but the whole reason that wireless earbuds took off is the hassle of wires.
And also no latency. Even expensive Bluetooth headphones and earbuds have crap latency. The systems that don't are either proprietary and not widely supported (e.g. aptX) or expensive 'phones-and-dongle arrangements that must always travel in a pair and still don't compete on latency with a pair of dollar store earbuds.
If you're listening to podcasts or music, latency doesn't really matter.
Unless you're using them for gaming or some other interactive medium, latency doesn't really matter though. For music, latency is irrelevant and for video, your device will take care of syncing the audio and video playback so it's a non issue. Audio quality is an entirely different matter of course.
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I finally went wireless a week ago. I realized their advantage when the cable on my headphones broke for a millionth time.
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I feel like I’d forget to charge them. Or drop them in a public place and not want to put them in my ears because I’m a germaphobe. I know someone who dropped theirs in a toilet.
Yeah, it's a risk. But, there's also a risk of getting your wired earbuds cord caught on something. I've had that happen and it yanked the phone off the table and sent it crashing to the floor. I've also had the buds get yanked out of my ears multiple times.
If I lived somewhere where winters were mild, I might still use wired headphones. When you only have to worry about a t-shirt or something managing the cord isn't too bad. But, when you have to manage a hat, scarf, coat, etc. there are just too many things to get in the way of the cord.
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The reason wireless earbuds took off is that phones with headphone jacks stopped getting made.
Consumers didn't prefer wireless earbuds. They preferred thinner and more water-resistant phones.
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The lost technology of the ancients is most glorious.
Both have their pros and cons. I miss my Westone 1 IEMs that I had back in college. My buddy's dog chewed them up. They were comfortable and super light, had great sound quality, a cord that wasn't obnoxious. Not having a cord is great though too especially when I'm working. Multipoint connection is great too. I can be listening to stuff on my phone with it in my pocket, no cable getting in the way, and when I get a call on Teams, my Pixel Buds just switch over to the computer.
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can they even patent that? its already a thing that made it to production on at least one brand that sells in north america and another two or more in china
I think JBL did it and they're a well established brand
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I just see another device to run Doom
But will it be better than pregnancy test doom or the doom-like game entirely embedded in a QR code ?
I mean the latter is just minified JavaScript, compressed and base64 encoded. The hardware is the browser, which is cheating IMO
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You can on Apple’s lightning to HDMI adapter:
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/running-doom-on-an-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter/
Just an excuse to charge more for them. Cant think of any useful reason to have a screen on the case when you have your phone with you.
It's an excuse to keep your product in the news/review cycle. You can't just create a useful product and leave it at that. You have to constantly change shit so people are constantly talking about it. Why do you think iPhone keep switching between rounded and square edges? It's not because one style is better then the other. It's so reviewers have something to talk about. It's why commercial OSes keep getting features no one asked for. It's why car and truck bodies keep changing even though body lines have no effect on driveability.
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They can’t fix their music app on the iphone. With every version this crap runs worse.
There's not gonna be any storage on it, though at that point there could be.
I think the purpose of it would be to control the device the headphones are connected to, rather than be the source of the media
so its basically an over-engineered version of this thing
But you see, that one has wires. We aren't supposed to like wires.
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Great, now people will buy a case to protect their case.
Oh wait, they already do
Thanks. I hate it.
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Absolutely revolutionary creams in pants I have never before witnessed this level of utter genius before in my entire 30 some odd years of existence. I was right in front of us checks notes this entire time and we were blinded by our own hubris.
TLDR; Nature finds a way.
If this ever got released, it would probably require constant phoning home and cost $400. Separately.
Not counting it as an iPod Nano if that one tunnel Breakout like game isn’t on it.
nano
people are going to lose and break these and it will cost than so much
That's why the next generation earphones will be wired.
New air pods can't be paired to them.
Doesn't the Apple Watch already fulfill the function of an iPod Nano? It works with Bluetooth headphones and has 16 GB of storage you can use for music, which is a lot by iPod Nano standards.
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Tbf this might be the most original thing apple has done.
There are tons of chinese brands that offer this type of headphones with display
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I would agree, but yet again, this is something I've seen 4 other versions of before apple gets to it.
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Look at JBL, i have a pair.
It's annoying af, as the screen also has controls and somehow they respond to my sweaty back (from cycling) while i locked it before i left.
I mean, this wouldn't be all that stupid imo. Add some Apple watch functionality like fitness detection and easy syncing between phone and iPod Nano Buds, this would be a solid addition to a runner's arsenal leaving no need to carry your $1000 phone on a run. Suppose you could use your watch for that and leave the case at home though. But more options aren't a bad thing, not everyone has or wants a watch.
leaving no need to carry your $1000 phone on a run.
my brother in christ it's called an MP3 player.
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