Apple has devised a pocket-sized companion that (hypothetically) does it all: tunes, video clips AND books, sans the nagging smartphone or clumsy smartwatch. Cupertino, you are so shut.
In a patent application revealed not too long ago by the U.S. Patent Office, Apple sketched out this kind of a system a headphone situation-satisfies-pocket-laptop with a touchscreen show and the prerequisite guts for flicking by tracks, watching motion pictures, peeping the temperature or even navigating someplace by means of a mapping application. Put a further way, time is a flat circle and Apple invented the iPod all above yet again.
Judging by the submitting, Apple sought to patent a thing reminiscent of a teensy iPod Contact or iPod Nano, but with a nook for charging a pair of wireless earbuds. This is only a patent software, which implies there’s at present no (zilch! zero!) indication a supercharged AirPods case like this will exist beyond some doodles.
Confident, the enterprise could be discovering these types of a system, provided its well–established desire in smarter earbuds. On the other hand, Apple may possibly simply just would like to lay down some metaphorical roadblocks for the competitiveness by way of this submitting. In any scenario, an iPod renaissance? Seems dreamy to me.
“The coolest detail about iPod is that you can acquire your full music library with you, correct in your pocket,” Apple co-founder Steve Employment reported millennia in the past, in 2001. In the yrs given that, almost everything and practically nothing has altered new music is arguably nonetheless the coolest matter about the Apple iphone, and it’s a single rationale why iPod nostalgia bubbles up time and time once again — in the variety of an unauthorized, iPod-inspired application wistful tweets a foolish smartwatch accessory movie cameos letters to an editor and so on.
The iPod is dead, but our wonderful craving for gadgets that do considerably less? That life on.