`Why, two years after launching, Apple`s expensive, magical headphones are suddenly taking over our headspace.` — GQ.
I ducked into a Tim Horton`s — Canadian Dunkin` Donuts — the other day to grab a quick coffee and I was immediately struck by not one, not two, but three people wearing Apple`s AirPods. Two of them had in only a single AirPod. The third was rocking both. I`m not talking about downtown SF or NYC here. I`m talking about the suburbs of Montreal. And, increasingly, everywhere.
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Jon Wilde, writing for GQ:
I asked Jony Ive, Apple`s chief design officer, why he thought the AirPods at first left everyone looking like a puppy staring at a butterfly.
`I think this was common on the initial reaction to the AirPods—it`s a reaction based on an academic understanding of them, rather than a practical daily understanding of them,` said Ive. `What we tend to focus on are those attributes that are easy to talk about, and just ...
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