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Apple created a pocket-sized device that plays music, videos, and books without a smartphone or smartwatch. Cupertino, near.
Apple has filed a patent application for a headphone-case-meets-pocket-computer with a touchscreen display and the guts to browse tunes, movies, weather, and maps. Apple reinvented the iPod because time is flat.
Apple filed a patent for a tiny iPod Touch or Nano with a wireless earphone charging slot. This is merely a patent application, so there is no evidence of a supercharged AirPods case beyond drawings.
Given its focus on intelligent earphones, the business may be investigating such a product. Apple may use its filing to ban the competition metaphorically. iPod revival? Dreamy.
“The coolest thing about iPod is that you can take your whole music library with you, right in your pocket,” Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said in 2001. In the years afterwards, music is still the coolest thing about the iPhone, which is why iPod nostalgia keeps popping up in the shape of an unofficial, iPod-inspired app, mournful tweets, a ridiculous smartwatch accessory, movie appearances, letters to an editor, and so on.
