Apple’s AirPods make Google Glass look even more ridiculous (if that’s even possible)
“It may seem like just another bluetooth ear bud, but look again at the technologies embedded in the AirPod,” Jeffrey Kantor writes for Quora. “It senses when it’s in your ear, uses accelerometers to detect motion. With a tap the beam-forming microphone accepts input to the Siri assistant which, like the Amazon Echo, is rapidly becoming a primary user interface to the internet. Airpods sync across all your Apple devices via iCloud placing the AirPod as a peer to the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch.”
“It’s an iPhone in your ear,” Kantor writes. “Instead of finger gestures, you simply talk to it with a familiar vocabulary. It uses your hearing instead of your eyesight to communicate with you”
“Think about how it could evolve. In fact, how long will it be before you no longer need an iPhone at all? For example, need to call someone? Just tap your ear and ask Siri. Or ask Siri to play a song for you, schedule an appointment, or check your messages,” Kantor writes. “Ask for directions and your AirPod could wirelessly communicate with the GPS in your Apple Watch to give you a map, whisper turn-by-turn directions in your ear, mention a local coffee shop, tell you when the next bus is due at your location, or that the Uber driver you requested is waiting at the corner.”
iPhone 7 with Apple’s revolutionary AirPods
“With accelerometers it can sense if you’re moving or standing, or nodding or shaking your head in response to a question. With AirPods you can hold your head up and walk down the street, ride a bicycle, or drive a car and not dangerously bury your face in an iPhone,” Kantor writes. “It’s an intriguing vision of the future for mobile technologies comparable to Google glass in ambition but further along in execution.”
A GlassholeMacDailyNews Take: Jeffrey Kantor gets it.
An LTE-enabled Apple Watch and a pair of AirPods would supplant a great deal of iPhone’s current functions.
Can’t innovate anymore, our collective ass.
As for the AirPods looking alien: Tape a pair of wires on the ends of each and you’ll see that they look very much like the type of earphones that everyone is very used to seeing by now (which, for those who remember, we weren’t used to seeing before iPod – people thought those looked “alien,” too). We’ll all get used to the lack of wires soon enough. — MacDailyNews, September 14, 2016
