MFi Certification is the Ticket; Earbud Case Recording is the Real 'Return Parameter'

Two months ago, I was still arguing with my team: why shove an AI voice assistant into earbuds? LLM inference costs are so high—will users even pay for a membership? Then our neighbor NetEase Youdao straight up rolled out the OpenPods, where the charging case can independently record and translate, and they even snagged Apple's MFi certification. As someone who spends all day staring at code checking cyclomatic complexity, my first reaction was: how well-written is this thing's "API documentation"?