A black gloss iPhone but no black Airpods? Why?

Martin Hajek:

What if Apple had done the new AirPods in black too?

I modelled these earphones and rendered them in brand-new iPhone gloss black. You can’t buy these for real but you can download the 3D model of these AirPods.

Hajek screams in his piece, “SO WHY DID THIS NOT HAPPEN?” There are any number of reasons, most likely for simplicity’s sake in their first iteration. If they prove to be popular (and, even though I won’t be buying them, I think they will be), we’ll see colour matched AirPods in their next version. But, then again, there are no black EarPods so maybe we’ll never see them.