[antiffan]

A feature I'd love to see: sync to AirPods.

I imagine it won't happen because in some ways it's kind of backwards, but I hate running with my phone, especially because I have a huge 6+.

It seems like a simple thing to just want to be able to take some of my music/podcasts with me running, but it's not realistic unless I own a separate iPod shuffle that I then have to deal with. Adding a small amount of memory to AirPods would make this possible and relatively seamless.

[lostgame]

It's called an Apple Watch.

I sync a playlist of my music from my 6S onto my Apple Watch rev. 1 and use a pair of beats solo 3. Works daaaaandy.

The Apple Watch is far, far too goddamn expensive, though. Let's get it down to at least $199, guys, and don't force us to pair an iPhone with it. It's what the iPod Nano turned into. Why is it so much more expensive?

If people could just buy an Apple Watch, it could convince them to buy further into the Apple ecosystem, in the same way as the iPod did (but obviously not to such a scale).

[epochwolf]

That's what the Apple Watch is for: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204691

[prawn]

Presumably you would have to sync the iPod Shuffle equivalent as you would the AirPods. Maybe the issue is more with their syncing? (I know I find it annoying.)

DHH from 37Signals mentioned on Twitter recently that he has two iPhones - 6+ and a 6. Larger one for around the house, in bed, etc and the other when out and about. It struck me as an almost affordable luxury for some people, if you can endure any syncing hassles.

[jodrellblank]

almost affordable luxury

Is it markedly different from having an iPhone for portability and an iPad+4G for around the house?

[prawn]

On the surface it would seem not, but going by my usage, I think there's a difference. Since getting a 6+, my iPads go largely unused. There are 3 iPads in my house and my wife and I both regularly watch streaming content on our phones. I think it's because you tend to have your phone with you as you move from the kitchen to the couch to the home office to read/watch before bed, etc.

For DHH, I guess it's a combination of that and the fact that he doesn't want something as large as a 6+ in his pocket all the time.

But in terms of having the two devices, then little different. Obviously an affordable luxury given that many households would have phones and a tablet. I just hadn't thought of it being two different sizes of phone before.

[ciaranm]

I'm guessing they want you to use the watch for this. It has at least a gig set aside for music etc.

[simonjgreen]

The Samsung gear earphones do this

[fro]

This is what the Watch is for.