Apple has, a few years in the past, stopped delivery charging adapters with its telephones, beginning a pattern that does not appear to be going anyplace. Now, it has boldly eliminated yet one more factor cluttering its packing containers: the charging cable.
The newly introduced AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation (what a identify!) should not have even a cable within the field, not to mention a charger. This data is official and has been confirmed by Apple itself by its spec web page for the brand new earbuds.
So, we’re left questioning what’s subsequent. Will the AirPods 6 spec web page say “Charging Case (USB-C) bought individually”? At this price, wouldn’t it actually be that shocking?
All joking apart, eradicating a tiny USB cable from the field feels much less egregious than eradicating the charger, but it surely’s nonetheless a additional step on the way in which to creating the unboxing expertise for electronics an extremely boring affair.
Anyway, you possibly can pre-order each AirPods 4 fashions now, and so they’re set to start out delivery on (*4*) 20, the identical date because the iPhone 16 household.