The current AirPods lineup
One more AirPods model is expected to go through some changes next year and that is the over-ear AirPods Max. Gurman says that Apple doesn’t make enough money from the current Max units it sells to invest more time and money to develop hardware and software changes and features for the product. But what Apple will do next year, according to the report, is deliver the AirPods Max with a USB-C charger replacing the Lightning port, and possibly add new colors. The new AirPods Max could be introduced at the same time as the two new AirPods models.
Apple is also planning to add a major health-related feature to the AirPods which would allow them to be used as hearing aids. This software-related upgrade could take place sometime next year and would catapult Apple right into the middle of a market that generated $5.9 billion in global sales last year.
