Apple buys San Francisco-based Wi-Gear, developing Apple Bluetooth headphones?

By on Nov 9, 2010 at 11:35 AM
mobile November 9, 2010

9to5Mac is reporting that Apple recently acquired a small Bluetooth headphone company based in San Francisco around two months ago. Their source has not disclosed a purchase price, and Wi-Gear as a company is no longer operational. Wi-Gear manufactured A2DP stereo headphones under the brand name iMuffs and even a Bluetooth adapter that enabled older iPod and iPhones to get in on the action. After some snooping, 9to5Mac found that the co-founder of Wi-Gear is now an iOS Bluetooth Engineer at Apple on LinkedIn, thus giving credibility to the story. It’s said that Apple plans to create and manufacture their own brand of Bluetooth headphones, though it isn’t clear whether this would be a replacement for the wired headset that comes with Apple’s music devices, or something like a stereo Bluetooth accessory. Maybe even a new Bluetooth headset to replace their less-than-stellar first go at it?

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  • http://www.bgr.com Andrew Munchbach

    I dare, repeat dare, Apple to keep the moniker iMuffs.

    Mac Specialist: Hey, can I get you some iMuffs for your iPad?

    • Ericccccc

      haha

  • Miguel Jonathan

    Although he is wearing a ball cap, he is a very elegant person with his pinky out.

  • Anonymous

    Guy walks into an apple store… “hey, I heard you sell muff here?”

    • Brett

      That mean that Apple is forcing it’s male employees to actually talk to women?

  • Anonymous

    if they do this please dont make them suck because i hate bluetooth headsets. i haven’t found one that’s worth buying, maybe im not looking hard enough

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/PACMan3000/ Paul A. Chapel

    Now what new excuse are the Apple Haters going to use to pretend to be outraged about this, I wonder.

    • Donny

      Very soon. Expect words like isheep and icrap.

  • Anonymous

    I hope they make Bluetooth headphones that work great because they suck right now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

    iMuffs?

    what ??? are we coming out with SmartHookers?

  • sirpaul

    Great, more iCrap for the iSheep…

  • newbie

    I think that Apple will be removing the headphone jack to make their phones even thinner. I mean, unless they make the head jack smaller how thin can they possibly make the phone, right? Remove the jack, make phone thinner and “try” and tell everyone that headphones is a thing of the past.. sounds like Apple right?

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