An ex-Apple designer has revealed just long ago the company began working on AirPods Max and the reasoning behind not having an Apple logo on the product. The original AirPods came out in 2016 and AirPods Max weren't launched until 2020. So it's an easy assumption that Apple only decided to make AirPods Max once those initial tiny white earbuds had proven to be a success. Then, too, it took so long for AirPods Max to ever be updated, that it had to feel like they were not considered important. That's especially so since their eventual update chiefly consisted of switching them to using USB-C for charging. Yet according to designer Eugene Whang, he was working on AirPods Max fully five years before they were released. Speaking to Highsnobiety magazine, Whang described the job as really being about three products. Those were the headband, the case, and the cushion that together hold the AirPods Max comfortably against people ears.…