They could? Please share your design plans for the internal components that accomplish this feat.
Obviously sarcastic, but I'm making an important point. People here are overly fond of making claims about what Apple (and other companies) should be able to accomplish, even though they usually have no idea what they are talking about. These devices are already incredible feats of technology, especially battery technology. No one in the industry has made earbuds of this type with user replaceable batteries. Doesn't that suggest something?
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The weight of things I'm wearing in my ears is pretty important.
If I'm capable of designing the whole internal by myself, I wouldn't post it on an internet forum. I would be working at Apple, or building my own headphone company.
Like I stated earlier, wireless headsets lifespan rely solely on their battery life. Any other components (speakers, wiring, chip etc) could still be working fine, but when the battery decays, so does the product. That's not okay for me. Why would a product stops being usable just because the company doesn’t want it to be fixed?
Headphones used to be a long-term product. A good quality headphone with good care, can be used for 5 years or more. People would dump it if its core component (the earpieces, or main wiring) no longer works.
This is much like "fixing" the infamous butterfly keyboard on your Macbook. One or two keys getting stuck, all Apple needs to do is replacing the whole keyboard assembly, which fused together with the top aluminum case, battery, and some of USB-C ports. All that effort just to fix a few tiny keys on the keyboard. That's like half of all otherwise well-working parts getting replaced.
Maybe Apple is capable of recycling the whole thing, but costing customers huge bills for a repair job that supposedly only fix the keyboard.
I wouldn't call it a feat of technology.
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