“Apple’s official line of headphones and earbuds have always been pretty lackluster in my eyes, but a secret acquisition might mean that Cupertino is planning on changing all of that: according to reports, Apple might have quietly purchased a small Bluetooth wireless headphone designer a couple of months ago, and are hard at work in their labs on a new pair of totally wireless cans,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac.
“The company is called Wi-Gear, and their showcase product was a line of Bluetooth headphones called iMuffs,” Brownlee reports. “According to 9to5Mac, the company very quietly put an “out of business” notice up on their official site two months ago, even as Wi-Gear co-founder Michael Kim moved on to a position as the iOS Bluetooth Engineer at Apple.”
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Seth Weintraub reports for 9 to 5 Mac, “A source tells 9to5Mac that Apple scooped up a small Bluetooth wireless headphone designer [Wi-Gear] in San Francisco two months ago for an undisclosed sum.”
“Apple plans to build its own stereo Bluetooth headphones for future iOS devices and MacBooks with technology and expertise from Wi-Gear,” Weintraub reports. “As you’ll recall, Apple didn’t have a great amount of success with its own Bluetooth mono headset and instead of building in-house for their new stereo product, decided to pick up the small Wi-Gear outfit.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jax44” for the heads up.]