But losing the wheels can also save a tremendous amount of money, especially in places like Chicago, home of the convenient South Loop neighborhood, with a free ride program on buses and subways for residents age 65 and up.
The firm maintains that it had been pitching its patented noise cancellation to Apple in periodic meetings between 2007 and 2010, only to watch as 1 Infinite Loop used Audience's technology for the iPhone 4 instead -- and supposedly handed some of Noise Free's work to a competitor.