Apple AirPods Case with Screen is Just the iPod Nano Reproductive Cycle

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A two-part social media meme. The top section shows a news headline 'Apple patents new AirPods case with interactive display' with an image of a white AirPods case that has a small touchscreen showing music playback controls (album art, play/pause, skip buttons, progress bar) playing a song called 'arrow' by 'half-alive'. The bottom section shows a Twitter/X reply from user JVS3PH (@jvs3ph_) with a verified badge who comments: 'I can't believe I've lived long enough to watch the full reproductive cycle of an iPod nano'. The joke brilliantly observes that Apple essentially killed the iPod nano, then gradually re-evolved the same concept into an AirPods case accessory -- the tech equivalent of convergent evolution

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Apple's product strategy: deprecate it, wait 10 years, add it back as a feature of something else, charge twice as much, call it innovation. The iPod nano died so the AirPods case could live

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Apple's product strategy: deprecate it, wait 10 years, add it back as a feature of something else, charge twice as much, call it innovation. The iPod nano died so the AirPods case could live
@Daonifur 6mo

Too bad the screen's battery usage and heat usually means the actual nano is going to run better
@f0cu53d 6mo

Except its not a player :(
dev_meme 6mo

In a year: Apple patents new AirPods case with interactive display and touch ID to prevent phantom pocket touches In another year: Apple patents new AirPods case with interactive display and a sim slot In another year: *random marketer at an internal Apple FaceTime call*: "Hmm using a phone as an earbuds case wasn't such a bad idea after all, glad we could trick people into buying these separately all this time"
1. @TheFloofyFloof 6mo
  
  people buy watches with LTE, that still need to be connected to a phone to function.
  
  dev_meme 6mo
  
  🤔 but how are they different from a regular smart watch then?
@m01ex 6mo

Fucking losers just stole the idea from cheap ass chinese TWS and patenting it. LOL?
1. @deadgnom32 6mo
  
  yeah. patenting already existent tech is one way to get lots of money with nearly zero effort
@sandor73 6mo

can it actually play music without an external device or is it basically useless. Because if it's an mp3 player on which you could sync podcasts and music then it would actually be really cool.
1. @Gungaii 6mo
  
  No its most likely like the JBL ones its just screen that you can pause and play and maybe control the volume useless garbage