These Apple AirPods Seem… Impossible?

so this airpod looking thing showed up

at the studio and this was sent by a

company who in the past have sent me

very accurate and reliable mockups of

Hardware that's pre-release so they sent

me blanks of upcoming iPhones they've

sent me the resin model of the pixel

fold before it was available they also

sent me the Surface Duo like a

functioning surface Duo before it was

released they have a very good track

record with me but last week when this

device showed up I thought it was pretty

interesting because this is supposed to

be a upcoming airpod Pro case and it's

just airpods Pro except the defining

feature is that it has a touchcreen on

it now when I cut this in when I pulled

it out of the box the first reaction I

had was like there's no way this is real

there's no way that apple is coming out

with this thing because there's so many

questions so many thoughts I have about

this thing about why it probably

shouldn't even exist but I I asked them

is this legit and they're like they seem

quite convinced that this was actually

going to be thing so I look into it and

it turns out that in 2022 Apple did file

a patent for a device that looks to be

some kind of case for airpods and this

case has a touchcreen and they document

the kind of functionality of that

touchcreen but the thing to keep in mind

when it comes to Apple patents is that

the vast majority of their patents don't

end up as a product a lot of it is for

like experimental or explorative

purposes but in this case I feel like

this could actually be a real device and

also it's it's also the confidence that

those guys seem to have about this whole

thing

now I have so many questions and

thoughts okay uh when you compare it

with a real airpod Pro two this is the

one with the USBC Port they both have

USBC ports they both have a little

speaker thing uh they both have the

lanyard loop on the right they both have

same kind of back metal hinge the

button it and when you open it up it's

also identical it really is just the

presence of the screen that is the

difference also kudos to them for

actually fitting a screen onto a case

like this I'll be honest I was surprised

that this thing could even exist but the

question that you have the

million-dollar question is why would

Apple even put a touchcreen onto airpods

in the first place okay so on this

mockup the thing that I have here it has

some functionality like touchscreen

gives you controls namely uh audio

controls you can control your music you

get volume controls you get ANC controls

so you can like turn your noise

cancellation on and off you can enter

transparency mode uh and this was all

functional that was the crazy thing like

you could do all the stuff with these

buds that were in here uh there's also

an EQ if you want to like crank up your

base you can uh there's just a whole

bunch of functionality including a find

my buds like you could this was all

functional right you could

just have it out

and like it all worked now the sound

quality on these buds aren't great

they're not real buds but it was crazy

that this was functional

now my initial reaction is like okay

this is all cool but the one thing that

I would have loved to have seen would be

the ability for my phone to be able to

send media to this thing so it could use

like an iPod right but it turns out you

can't do that and if you look at the

patent filing that also seems to be the

case the device that they have there in

the patent is only used as a controller

for an external audio Source like your

phone or computer that's nearby and then

I thought if you need your phone nearby

why would you use this like imagine you

had the airpods case in one pocket and

then your phone in the other pocket in

What scenario is it easier or better to

use the controls on the case instead of

your phone like I just couldn't wrap my

heads around and also by introducing a

screen onto this thing you now make it

more expensive you make it heavier you

make it more fra

now the battery has to be bigger to be

able to juice all this stuff like it

just seems like a really bizarre thing

for Apple to even consider that I was

just like this seems impossible like

actually unlikely now it is Apple they

have the tendency to just put screens on

things whenever they can because they

can like I said the same thing about

having the touch bar on the MacBook Pro

a few years back I was like why because

they can same with the Vision Pro when

this thing launched I was like why are

they putting this whole Vision thing on

the front like why their screen it makes

it more expensive more heavy like the

same things right same problems by

adding a screen on the front of things

but it's what Apple does and they just

do it because they can now there's

another layer to all this when I used

this over the past few days and I tried

to kind of Imagine a scenario where I

would actually want to use this it it

couldn't click for me it just didn't

really make sense to me as to why a

screen on an airpod case would be useful

however this is not the only device out

there and this thing isn't even real

there are other products out there right

now you can buy that have kind of some

kind of wireless earbuds with a screen

on the front of the case the most

prominent one being from JBL the JBL

tour Pro 2 and this device has great

reviews but the interesting thing is

that even though a handful of these

reviews mention a gimmicky screen like

you know the screen doesn't do that much

the vast majority of the reviews seem to

love the existence of that touchcreen a

lot of people are talking about how it's

got this extra functionality and the

whole time I'm like do do these people

not have phones like why is this special

so maybe it's something that I just I

personally don't get and maybe some of

you guys can chime in and be like you

know there's awesome functionality to

that but I cannot Envision a scenario

where if I was in a store and I could

choose between two devices right one

with a screen or the one without a

screen that's going to be invariably

cheaper I would always choose the

cheaper one that was

screenless

unless oh my

God as I was saying that

sentence I think I something just came

into my mind what if okay okay okay okay

okay oh my God right now this is a

$250 product us the regular airpods Pro

2 now what if the Next Generation the

airpods Pro 3 only comes comes

with a screened case as in it's the only

option what if there is no screenless

case that you can buy you have to get a

case with the screen dude I can totally

see this they charge you $280 so instead

of $250 it's now $280 that $30 bump up

in price you get slightly better audio

but the big thing is you get a screen

now and that justifies that bump up in

price for the consumers this totally

makes sense cuz also opens up this

upgrade tree cuz then the next year they

can sell you the the retina version and

then the liquid retina version then the

one with the notch they got this whole

you can do that whole thing now you

see oh my God this this finally makes

sense to me this whole time I I just

couldn't piece it together but now this

scenario actually makes sense because

this is a very high margin product right

these things are very cheap to produce

and they sell for a lot of money but

what if you could bump up the price by

like 30 bucks when it only cost you

maybe five or six dollars more to

produce it that would be such an apple

thing to

do dudes that's got to be it that's got

to be why this thing could possibly

exist now whether or not it actually

comes out I don't know but it totally

makes sense to me now it totally makes

sense to me what do you think now I

could be totally wrong for some people

out there that be like Dave you're

completely an idiot there are so many

usage cases where having a screen is

Awesome on an airpod C

educate me please like legitimately I

want to know if that's a real thing but

what do you

think that's my theory for the day hope

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