According to 9to5Mac, Apple has acquired Wi-Gear which is a small Bluetooth wireless headphone designer in San Francisco. This company made Bluetooth 2.0 adapter for older iPhones and iPods that don’t support Bluetooth 2.0 and also made three generations of A2DP stereo headphones called iMuffs. The products of Wi-Gear were specifically designed to be used with Apple iOS devices. Now this company is closed. So Apple has decided to buy Wi-Gear to build its own stereo Bluetooth headphones for MacBooks and future iOS devices as Apple didn’t have a great success with its own Bluetooth mono headset.
Snapshot of Michael Kim’s LinkedIn profile,
For confirmations about this rumor, the guys over 9to5mac has found that the LinkedIn profile of Michael Kim who was the co-founder of Wi-Gear now lists him as an iOSBluetooth Engineer at Apple. Stay tuned with us for more updates.
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