Apple stops selling rival earphones, speakers ahead of launches

Bloomberg:

Apple Inc. has stopped selling headphones and wireless speakers from rivals including Sonos Inc., Bose Corp. and Logitech International SA as the company gears up to launch its own new audio products.

The Cupertino, California-based technology giant has long sold third-party hardware on its website, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world. All headphones and speakers from Bose, speakers from Logitech’s Ultimate Ears brand and Sonos’s latest smart speaker disappeared from Apple’s online store at the end of last month, according to checks by Bloomberg.

Check for yourself. Jump onto Apple.com and do a search for, say, “headphones”. Nothing but Apple and Beats.

A sure sign of coming Apple-branded over-ear headphones? And will we soon see a keynote invite for next week? October 13th has been rumored as a keynote date and it’s one week from today.