Only a week after getting wind of Apple’s reported plans to launch its own branded headphones, Bloomberg has suggested the Cupertino tech giant has been working on noise-cancelling over-ears for the past year. That’s according to “people familiar with the product’s development”.
We could see these headphones before the year is out. However, it’s possible the project could be delayed (like its HomePod smart speaker) or even scrapped altogether.
Naturally, the move into that market would encroach on territory marked by Apple's Beats by Dre. brand, too.
The plans for the noise-cancellers supposedly include similar wireless pairing functionality to the AirPods, which gives us every reason to believe Apple’s W1 chip (or perhaps even a forthcoming next generation of it) would feature.
