AirPods with an iPod built in? Shut up and take my money.
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Ryan Christoffel writing over at 9to5Mac
As the examples above demonstrate, Apple is essentially moving toward turning the AirPods case into a modern version of the iPod nano. The sixth-generation nano looked a lot like the drawings Apple’s patent displays.
Your future AirPods case may look a lot like a modern iPod nano - 9to5Mac
According to an Apple patent, the company is interested in building a future AirPods case with a built-in display, resembling an iPod nano.
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Look, Apple files patents for a lot of stuff that never really makes it out as a finished product, and this feels a lot like vaporware, but you have to imagine they would ship so so many of these AirPod/iPod hybrids if they did ship.
I think the biggest thing would be caching support for Apple Music, but if they had enough onboard memory, I’d be buying one for the kids no questions asked.
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