Apple's new AirPods Pro 2 features miss one trick that I loved in these rival earbuds

The Nothing Ear buds between two fingers.

Apple took pages from many other companies' playbooks during its Glowtime event launch livestream. The iPhone 16 is getting a Sony Xperia-esque shutter button, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 now comes in Samsung's favorite Bronze hue and a feature coming to AirPods Pro 2 almost gave me deja vu for how much I've used it in other earbuds recently... but it misses one trick.

Let's backtrack, for those of you confused by my lack of context. At Apple's annual new-gadget hoedown, it didn't announce the AirPods Pro 3 as some were expecting, but three new features coming to the AirPods Pro 2 later this year (and two pairs of AirPods 4).