Thank you for your response. You raise valid points, however, I was just sharing my opinion on what the original author wrote. I recognize that Apple is head and shoulders above any other company in terms of UX and identifying how people want to use technology.

Quick comments on a few of your responses:

1. I took issue with the comparison to Google Glass insofar as Google’s intention was not mass adoption (at least not at first) because it was a developper’s tool and expensive. As far as I can tell, Google is an iterative company, whereas Apple only goes to market with products designed to dominate their segment. I felt it was an apples to kumquats comparison is all.
2. You are correct, Bluetooth is still not a plug and play technology. It has improved, but it’s still not granny-simple. Again, my comment was limited to the examples in the original article that are several generations away from what is currently on the market.
3. I simply questioned if voice computing is becoming more common because Apple is pushing consumers that way or, as the original author highlighted, that the technology has experienced growing pains and is now showing signs of maturity; enough to make it something that Apple wants to be an industry leader in. Whether I “fully understand what Apple is what it is and how they work” is irrelevant to my original question and felt offside.
4. Your points 4 and 5 seem to conflict with each other somewhat. On one hand, you speak of having to replace your kids’ wired headphones, but then you suggest that “anyone silly enough to lose them” will be a minority. Would kids not be more likely to lose AirPods? I don’t think losing an AirPod, especially if third party products provide even smaller options, is going to be just a small minority. But we can agree to disagree.