Future Apple AirPods may come with health tracking features

Apple is expected to launch the AirPods this year, several reports have suggested that the upcoming AirPods 3 will be launched in May.

Apple is expected to launch the AirPods this year, several reports have suggested that the upcoming AirPods 3 will be launched in May. Now a new report has suggested that Apple might introduce health tracking features to its next pair of AirPods to take on the competition. It is not clear whether the upcoming AirPods which has surfaced many times on the internet will get the health tracking feature or not. As per MacRumors, popular analyst Ming Chi Kuo has reported that Apple AirPods sales are expected to decline this year because of which the company is looking to enhance the technology. He has predicted that the sales can go down by almost 25 per cent. Kuo has revealed that cause of the decline is mostly due to the increased competition and loss of market share. “The competitive advantage of Apple's products lies in providing integration of the "hardware, software, and service" ecosystem, not just hardware. The iPhone, for example, has seen its market share decline due to the rapid growth of the smartphone market, but it has been able to maintain shipment growth because of the strong ecosystem of the App Store and developers. We believe that Siri is the core of AirPods' software and service ecosystem, but since Siri's competitive advantage is not significant, the gap between AirPods' leading edge and its competitors' shrinks due to a lack of protection from the ecosystem as competitors gradually improve their user experience and launch lower-price strategies at the same time. We believe that HomePod and HomePod mini shipments were significantly lower than expected for the same reason,” Kuo said in the note to investors which were accessed by MacRumours.