The external battery thing is absolutely ridiculous. I’m not an Apple fan and would not buy their products, but I can appreciate how devices like the iPod, iPhone and AirPods really did have extremely appealing design and a nice balance between performance and features and battery life and usability.
But the headset? Looks like they developed the entire thing, realized at the last minute they couldn’t power it, and tried to convince people to walk around with a weird cable and battery pouch everywhere by using their tried and true “show happy white people in a commercial doing the thing, so people will feel like the thing is normal and cool and desirable” and that completely did not work.
The external battery thing is absolutely ridiculous. I’m not an Apple fan and would not buy their products, but I can appreciate how devices like the iPod, iPhone and AirPods really did have extremely appealing design and a nice balance between performance and features and battery life and usability.
But the headset? Looks like they developed the entire thing, realized at the last minute they couldn’t power it, and tried to convince people to walk around with a weird cable and battery pouch everywhere by using their tried and true “show happy white people in a commercial doing the thing, so people will feel like the thing is normal and cool and desirable” and that completely did not work.