>so they could solve the problem they themselves created I don't know if I agree with this assessment. Apple is, to a fault, driven by the user experience of t

>so they could solve the problem they themselves created I don't know if I agree with this assessment. Apple is, to a fault, driven by the user experience of their products and what the "ideal" of a situation should be. It's very likely that AirPods, or some early variant, was discussed while Steve Jobs was at Apple and the conversation probably went something like: "What would be the perfect user experience for listening to music on an iPhone?" "I pick up my phone and hit play and the music plays directly into my ears." AirPods are about as close as someone can get to buying the product, putting them in their ears, and immediately listening as you can get. They set themselves up as soon as you open their case and they automatically connect to the active audio device when you put them in your ears. No one would ever add a wired cable to that process unless they absolutely had to for technical reasons. The only way to make this even more ideal is that the listening device is already in your ear or they can beam the audio directly into your ear canal without some kind of device you insert.