Apple bought Beats from Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine two years before the first AirPods were launched in 2016.
Today, most Beats earphones are very similar to AirPods, while Beats has not introduced any new over-ear headphones since long before AirPods Max first came out in 2020.
However, new Beats Studio Pro cans are rumoured to be in the pipeline for this autumn.
