Apple is as soon as once more considered working by itself substitute for Bluetooth in an try to discover a solution to deliver lossless audio to its AirPod lineup.
Regardless of the discharge of refreshed AirPods Professional, no wi-fi earbuds or headphones are at the moment able to transmitting lossless audio over Bluetooth — a difficulty that’s attributable to the know-how at hand and its lack of bandwidth. Now, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has backed up earlier reviews that Apple intends to go round Bluetooth, permitting it to deliver lossless audio to not solely AirPods Professional, however probably AirPods Max and presumably even the usual AirPods.
So lengthy, too sluggish
In his most up-to-date Energy On e-newsletter, Gurman mentions that the up to date AirPods Professional proceed to lack lossless audio as a result of Bluetooth “doesn’t have sufficient energy” to deal with it. He goes on to say that “it’s no secret that Apple has been cooking up an answer internally, although: a substitute for Bluetooth that might finally deliver the characteristic to future AirPods.”
What that substitute know-how will probably be, we do not but know. However we heard in Could of 2021 that Apple was wanting into the potential of utilizing AirPlay to attain the identical purpose.
On the time, YouTuber John Prosser claimed that he had been instructed that Apple may add AirPlay assist to AirPods “with a easy replace.” Greater than a yr later, and that’s but to occur and lossless audio stays a characteristic that’s solely obtainable to those that plug their headphones in. And with Apple’s iPhones not delivery with headphone jacks, that is unlikely to occur.
Apple Music helps lossless audio already, that means it might make loads of sense for Apple to wish to discover a solution to provide that to iPhone, Mac, and Apple TV homeowners. Nonetheless, Prosser instructed that Apple is cautious of the accusations of anticompetitive conduct it’d face ought to it make wi-fi lossless audio a characteristic folks have to purchase its personal headphones to make use of.