Apple is reportedly working on high-end, over-the-ear headphones

Apple might be planning to dive into the high-end headphones market, possibly even this year. 

This is according to a new Bloomberg report, which claims these headphones will have noise-cancellation and be wireless, with pairing likely being as easy as with Apple's AirPods. 

We've heard the same thing a week ago from nearly-always-accurate Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who said the headphones will have an "all-new" design and be more expensive than AirPods. 

The Bloomberg report adds a few new details, though. It says that Apple's headphones are likely to use similar audio tech as seen in the company's smart speaker, HomePod, but no further details are provided. Furthermore, the report claims that Apple has been working on the headphones for at least a year, and that the development has been hampered with undisclosed issues which could push the release date into 2019 (the company currently plans to launch them at the end of 2018).  Read more...