TECHNOLOGY IN THE computer industry tends to change so quickly that it’s often hard to keep up with all the latest developments. That’s not the case in other industries, though — it took almost a century for electric cars to provide an alternative to the gas–guzzling internal combustion engine.
The somewhat stuffy hi–fi industry also tends to be quite resistant to change, using the same basic technology to produce headphones and speakers for almost 100 years (remember that a set of headphones is essentially a small pair of speakers that simply sit right over, or inside, your ears).
Apple shook up the headphone market with the AirPods in 2016, creating an entirely new