The Circle of iLife

Apple patents all sorts of weird shit. 99% of it never gets made. They just want the money from patent litigation and licensing.

I have earbuds that don’t need to be charged and use a cable for easy connectivity and sound quality.

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 just see another device to run Doom

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.

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.

Great, now people will buy a case to protect their case.

Oh wait, they already do

Tbf this might be the most original thing apple has done.

If this ever got released, it would probably require constant phoning home and cost $400. Separately.

<in heavy Australian dankpods accent> nano

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.

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.

people are going to lose and break these and it will cost than so much

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.

Like these?

I mean, IF they also add internal storage for mp3 files and it would act as an oldschool mp3-player/ipod, that would be actually cool … but I don’t need another display … you already have one on your phone and maybe also on your wrist

I'm surprised nobody has done yet as I've seen all sorts of features be added to earphone cases. Maybe a decent touchscreen is not yet cheap enough to throw at some case without the profit margin of the apple brand.

It's almost a shame that they decided to go with wide instead of tall.

Everyone paying 299$ for inear buds with a display case

One way, pre-recorded beeper, more like it.

This is the first apple device I would willingly buy.

Awesome, can't wait to hear my music softly from inside the box and be able to skip to the next song.