The AirPods Max were launched a few weeks ago and with it culminated a perfect year for apple. The renewal of its iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch in addition to the launch of its new Macs are the A1 chip, making 2020 a year of revolution for the Big Apple. The new headband headphones were launched without an in-person event. However, that has not made the expectation and demand higher than expected for Apple. In one of the last interviews with some vice presidents of the company they assure that The design of the AirPods Max went through hundreds of prototypes before reaching the end.
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La last interview related to AirPods Max comes from the Japanese website Casa BRUTUS. In this interview, they were able to speak with the vice presidents of industrial design, product marketing, and an industrial designer from the company. Emphasize that the vice president of industrial design, Evans Hankey, is the successor to the well-known Jon Ive, a very important figure for Apple product designs in the last decade.
The design team went through a long decision-making process in which they finally managed to find the essence of the new AirPods Max. In Hankey's words, the new headphones are 'two capsules and a strong, flexible headband that connects them'. For them that was the objective, define a common design to later go on to choose the materials, the shape and the final finish.
As a curiosity, the band that joins both headphones, both right and left, has the ability to bend up to 285% of its original shape, with the aim of adapting to the different shapes of the heads of all types of users. On the other hand, in the interview the idea of importing common elements such as the Digital Crown or the button to activate active noise cancellation, which resembles the external interface of the Apple Watch, was discussed.left and right res also passes through this.