I truly do not get the hype around this.
We're slowly moving into that future tech world that we saw in movies and dreamt up when we were kids. These are wireless earbuds. My first pair of wireless headphones used IR, took two AA batteries, were huge, heavy, and sounded horrible once you started losing sight of the transmitter!
Sure, it's a small step in mass-market technology, but that's the only way tech moves forward for most of the world. It's never really existed before, it's something new!
Some of us find advancements in tech exciting, whether it's some incremental advancement in AI, or an incremental advancement for silly earbuds.
If you think in terms of small increments, you'll never see, or be impressed with, the big changes that are happening around you.
And actually the Dash was a kickstarter from two years ago which is the same as the Airpods, where each pod is separate with no wire at all. Started shipping a year ago.
People who know Apple are getting sick of them jumping on bandwagons' years late and claiming to be first.
That's probably jsatk's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169976) point: Apple seems to be trying very hard to generate hype, but there isn't any.