{"id":13888,"date":"2018-03-12T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=13888"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:33:36","slug":"apple-may-turn-away-beats-create-headphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/apple-may-turn-away-beats-create-headphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple headphones could be on the way, betraying Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Beats headphones have been a household name for headphones for years, but their owners Apple may be creating their own to rival them.<\/h4>\n<p>Apple bought Beats by Dre back in 2014, acquiring the high-end audio manufacturers founded by rapper Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine &#8211; both now executives at Apple. They&#8217;ve been pushing Beats headphones ever since, but new rumours suggest that Apple could be bringing out their own headphones to rival them.<\/p>\n<p>In an article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-05\/apple-is-said-to-turn-up-audio-ambition-with-high-end-headphones\">Bloomberg<\/a> &#8216;people familiar with the product&#8217;s development&#8217; say that Apple are working on over-ear headphones to rival market leaders like Bose and Beats. According to the sources Apple are hoping to launch their headphones as early as the end of this year, however &#8216;development challenges&#8217; may mean it&#8217;s a while longer until we see Apple&#8217;s headphones.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the Apple headphones are reportedly deep in development the sources say it may still see a complete redesign or even be scrapped entirely. The same sources said that Apple faced similar development issues with the HomePod and had been redesigned multiple times in it&#8217;s creation before the final version was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Apple have been successful with earphones before, particularly their most recent AirPods which were strangely successful after being <a href=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/apple-airpods-are-still-a-joke-proven-by-these-airpod-catcher-earrings\/\">criticised for their design<\/a>. They innovated by making them fully wireless earphones but their design almost destined them to be inevitably lost down sofas, in a drain, even in your pockets &#8211; which isn&#8217;t appealing considering their cost.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the HomePod was a much more objectively quality product, <a href=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/apples-homepod-speaker-revolutionary-design-or-a-marshmallow-toilet-roll\/\">except perhaps looking like a roll of toilet pape<\/a>r, it&#8217;s price was still far higher than any competitors for no real innovation. Hopefully with their headphones Apple will be looking to do something special if they&#8217;re planning on another hefty price tag.<\/p>\n<p>The sources who spoke to Bloomberg asked not to be identified and a spokesperson for Apple refused to comment on the headphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beats headphones have been a household name for headphones for years, but their owners Apple may be creating their own to rival them. Apple bought Beats by Dre back in 2014, acquiring the high-end audio manufacturers founded by rapper Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine &#8211; both now executives at Apple. They&#8217;ve been pushing Beats headphones ever since, but new rumours suggest that Apple could be bringing out their own headphones to rival them. In an article by Bloomberg &#8216;people familiar with the product&#8217;s development&#8217; say that Apple are working on over-ear headphones to rival market leaders like Bose and Beats&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1047],"tags":[7524,568,47,247,86,4523,1716,8891,788,4737,28,9782,2314],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Apple headphones could be on the way, betraying Beats - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Beats headphones have been a household name for headphones for years, but their owners Apple may be creating their own to rival them.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/apple-may-turn-away-beats-create-headphones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apple headphones could be on the way, betraying Beats - 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