AirPods used to feel like the future, but now they're a relic of the past

As recently as 2019, AirPods were unquestionably the best wireless earbuds in the game. Those telltale white stems were visible everywhere you looked — the streets, the office, the subway, and schools. It's that runaway success which may have led Apple to get, not lazy but complacent in the past couple of years. By not...