AirPods with an iPod built in? Shut up and take my money.
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.
Ryan Christoffel
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.