IMAGE: APPLE APRIL 2020 MACWORLD 47
N
ot that long ago, I spent a
week wearing Apple’s new
AirPods Pro (go.macworld.com/
aipr). It wasn’t a week straight, I
mean, but I wore them pretty consistently in
all the places I’d usually use one of my
other myriad sets of headphones.
In looking at the AirPods Pro as a
product, I think there are important things
to be gleaned from the choices Apple
made in its design—the kind of design
choices that may lend insight into the way
Apple is thinking about the wearables
market.What the AirPods Pro hint about
Apple’s wearable AR philosophy
As Apple’s newest wearable device, the AirPods Pro may point to how Apple thinks about
other wearable devices, like an AR headset.
BY MICHAEL SIMON