A strange thing happened about six months ago, when I started to notice more and more people wearing Apple AirPods on the train each day.

The AirPods were mocked when they were first launched in 2016, for being over-engineered, and over-priced – and by people like me who couldn’t actually get the darn things to stay in their ears for more than five seconds at a time.
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