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Bluetooth backlash and nostalgia helped Bose launch wired headphones that keep selling out

Fast Company 23 October 2026 12h ago
Bluetooth backlash and nostalgia helped Bose launch wired headphones that keep selling out
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Last fall, Raza Haider, president of premium consumer audio at Bose, noticed something peculiar when dropping his daughter off at college: more students were wearing wired headphones than he’d seen in recent years. “Even [my daughter] made a comment like, ‘this is nuts. When I was in high school, we would have made fun of kids who had wired headphones, and now it feels like all the cool kids have
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