These little guys could soon end up being more useful than the Apple Watch. Stephen Lam/Getty Images

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Just a few months old and still largely sold out, Apple’s AirPods are gaining on the company’s better known watch line.

The AirPods already have key advantages over the Apple Watch. The wireless earpods already make it easier -- and arguably less awkward -- to converse with Siri. And they should get health-tracking capabilities, just like the watch, in the near future. “At this point, it might not even be that crazy to say it, but we think AirPods are going to be a bigger product for Apple than the Watch,” wrote Doug Clinton, an analyst at Loup Ventures.