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Apple AirPods are designed to die: Here’s what you should know(pirg.org)

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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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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
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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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luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
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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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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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Amen

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Lad@reddthat.com
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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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linearchaos@lemmy.world
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I replaced the batteries in my Samsung earbuds. It wasn’t super easy but it was tool-less.

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Reach@feddit.uk
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https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds Repairable, replaceable earbuds exist. Apple has no excuse. And I say that as an Apple user.

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brlemworld@lemmy.world
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Not available in US 😭

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Lad@reddthat.com
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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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Panda (he/him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Apple should design them to last.

Well, they should, but they won’t.

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rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world
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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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TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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My AirPods are still going strong after getting them in 2018. 🤷‍♂️ obviously doesn’t discount the stories for those who they didn’t work for. I also had to do a warranty exchange on them after a week from my original pair because they just randomly unpaired and wouldn’t pair to any device any more so that points to some QC issues for sure

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