Apple AirPods are designed to die: Here’s what you should know

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• PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple should design them to last.

  Well, they should, but they won’t.

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  • rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right. This goes for every company, ever. No company is going to do what they should do if it’s not profitable or beneficial to them in some way. It makes sense if you think about it, but that’s also why regulation exists. So that they don’t become too unhinged.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple has always been rabidly proprietary. Only in europe has any authority been able to force them to put their customers first

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  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    fuck the and their proprietary bullshit.

    yeah I care as a tech nerd, that’s real.

    but as someone who wants a planet in 50 years: apple needs to fucking burn. right alongside Exxon.

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    • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Amen

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    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, burning would release even more toxins. We need to find an environmentally friendly (or at least minimally harmful) way to dispose of them.

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• Audacious@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any product that is a portable electronic and does not have an easily replaceable battery is considered disposable, a commodity. Every single one.

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• AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tbf they can’t exactly make something with batteries that is designed to last forever can they?

  Unless of course, they make the batteries consumer replaceable. But that’s not going to happen.

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  • Reach@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds Repairable, replaceable earbuds exist. Apple has no excuse. And I say that as an Apple user.

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    • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m aware of fairbuds. Apple aren’t an outlier in this regard, nobody has any excuse. We need more companies to start offering replacement parts like Fairphone do!!

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    • brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not available in US 😭

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I replaced the batteries in my Samsung earbuds. It wasn’t super easy but it was tool-less.

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• Kekzkrieger@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here is what you should know: never ever buy a shit product

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  • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    10-4, i will continue to stay in my basement and not order things because I’m broke.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got mine in 2019 and still going

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• Mastengwe@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It always makes me laugh when articles like this are posted. I get to read all the smug anti-[SUBJECT OF ARTICLE] comments that are posted directly from their [COMPETITOR TO SUBJECT OF ARTICLE] devices that are always guilty of the exact same thing.

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