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I have earbuds that don’t need to be charged and use a cable for easy connectivity and sound quality.
That’s neat
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.
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.
They can’t fix their music app on the iphone. With every version this crap runs worse.
I just see another device to run Doom
You can on Apple’s lightning to HDMI adapter:
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/running-doom-on-an-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter/
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
Not counting it as an iPod Nano if that one tunnel Breakout like game isn’t on it.
<in heavy Australian dankpods accent> nano
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
It’s fake bro lol
I think JBL did it and they’re a well established brand
can they even patent that?
What “that”? They can patent a specific technical solution that is unique to their product, not the idea per se.
I was gonna say, pretty sure I’ve seen something like this on Amazon already, except from some weird Chinese company.
Chinese != Weird
Apple patents all sorts of weird shit. 99% of it never gets made. They just want the money from patent litigation and licensing.
It’s fake lol
No not like those, the difference is Apple did it first like every thing else they copied.
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.
But… My earpieces already have 2 touch zones and multiple press combinations.
I tried a pair of earbuds with the same idea from AliExpress. They had the regular controls, but also worked as e.g. a camera remote. Very cool if it had done anything it was supposed to do consistently, but unfortunately it was not well-implemented. If the AirPods Pro 3 (which I was already strongly considering) have a case with a screen that isn’t much larger than the Pro 2 case, I’ll probably buy that model.
Right, so it’s not really an iPod Nano.
Don’t the headphones already do that?
My guess would be that you could control things like playlist, shuffle, etc. Like a smartwatch interface but only for music.
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.
My series 9 has 64GB. I have multiple playlists downloaded to it which is great for the gym. You can also just stream music from it over wifi or cellular.
Pretty sure a Nano would last far more with a single charge though
If this ever got released, it would probably require constant phoning home and cost $400. Separately.
It’s almost a shame that they decided to go with wide instead of tall.
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.
They have done it. There’s lots of Chinese earbuds with screens. Even JBL did it.
My coworker bought an ear bud case that he can play flappy bird on.
