Apple May Pivot the Beats Brand Into a Way of Marketing Less Polished Products, Starting With Gamer Gear
Status-obsessed people may have scoffed at your budget-friendly car, but you probably knew at the time it was just a Toyota with a different nameplate on it. And Gurman now says his anonymous inside sources have told him Apple “has indeed been working on gaming controllers for the iPhone for a bit over a year.” However, Gurman claims, the controllers Apple has in mind may never carry Apple branding. The controller idea is being developed under the aegis of Beats, Gurman writes.
- ▪Status-obsessed people may have scoffed at your budget-friendly car, but you probably knew at the time it was just a Toyota with a different nameplate on it.
- ▪And Gurman now says his anonymous inside sources have told him Apple “has indeed been working on gaming controllers for the iPhone for a bit over a year.” However, Gurman claims, the controllers Apple has in mind may never carry Apple brand
- ▪The controller idea is being developed under the aegis of Beats, Gurman writes.
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Did you ever drive a Scion? Status-obsessed people may have scoffed at your budget-friendly car, but you probably knew at the time it was just a Toyota with a different nameplate on it. According to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple may be looking to turn the Beats brand into a similar repository for lower-priced goods.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000811050","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"gadgets","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"gadgets","TAGS":"apple,beats,gaming","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); A couple weeks ago, hidden code was found, seemingly exposing a…
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