Despite their recent massive flops in the AI department, in a way this makes me excited about Apple's prospects in this regard in the long term. These are bigger than AirPods, but they're not _that_ much bigger. Shave off the USB-C connector for wireless charging, swap the battery out to accommodate for the shape and you're already pretty close. Apple is really good at fitting things into the smallest form factor possible, and given they could offload all the compute to the iPhone which already comes with some pretty good chips, this could lead to some really exciting tech in the long run. They need to get their act together before that can happen though.