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AirPods Pro 2 Teardown Provides Inside Look at Earbuds and Charging Case
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Tim Cook only cares to the extent that it greenwashes his company and products, and ultimately, can you blame the guy? We've created a system where we reward those who are the most astute marketers at any cost to the environment, our health, and sustainability and we, as consumers (collectively, not individually), have shown *we just don't care* when it actually comes down to buying behaviors.
Why are we spending all this time hating on the players of the game when we're the ones who have set the rules but suddenly are realizing we don't like the outcomes we all were told would happen?
Much ifixit hate..
They did praise Apple for the iPhone 14 internal redesign. There is reason for bashing Apple in this situation – ‘just recycle’ as most and Apple included in this situation suggest is not a viable solution because recycling takes energy and other resources, and it’s likely not a lot can get recycled if the unit can’t be opened without being broken. I think there’s a reason they don’t tell us how exactly their recycling works and what the yields are, otherwise they would’ve bragged about it.
I’m citing Apple:
“From the earliest stages of design through manufacturing, use, and recycling, Apple takes care to minimize the environmental impact of its activities.”
If that really was true, they wouldn’t release a product like this because it wouldn’t have passed their requirements for environmentally responsible design. Whether the current form factor allows it or not doesn’t matter - if they cared and this form factor didn’t allow repairability they wouldn’t have released these.
They did praise Apple for the iPhone 14 internal redesign. There is reason for bashing Apple in this situation – ‘just recycle’ as most and Apple included in this situation suggest is not a viable solution because recycling takes energy and other resources, and it’s likely not a lot can get recycled if the unit can’t be opened without being broken. I think there’s a reason they don’t tell us how exactly their recycling works and what the yields are, otherwise they would’ve bragged about it.
I’m citing Apple:
“From the earliest stages of design through manufacturing, use, and recycling, Apple takes care to minimize the environmental impact of its activities.”
If that really was true, they wouldn’t release a product like this because it wouldn’t have passed their requirements for environmentally responsible design. Whether the current form factor allows it or not doesn’t matter - if they cared and this form factor didn’t allow repairability they wouldn’t have released these.
Tim Cook’s primary priority is to increase shareholder wealth and a person can make a fair argument that lying about being motivated by altruistic goals is good PR and helps him do that. But at the same time others and I can call him out for his duplicity.
How many people have the necessary skill, specialist tool kit and even the eyesight to repair something with the component size of the AirPods... of course they're not made to be user serviceable. They are green inasmuch as they are made with recycled, responsibly sourced or reclaimed materials which is as much as Joe public should expect.
A tiny device that lasts what two or three years is not repairable. iPods Pro weight 57g. A Tesla Model 3 weights (1,611,000g which last ~7 times as long. How much of that is unrecyclable? Taking another approach, how many tires worn out in that time? And what does that amount to. I suspect a bit more than 57g.
Unrepairable iPods may be frustrating and a bit expensive, but impact on the environment compared to everything else we do, not much.
Unrepairable iPods may be frustrating and a bit expensive, but impact on the environment compared to everything else we do, not much.
And carbon neutral! How is this even possibl? And why they release a new iPhone eeeevery year instead of every 2 to not contaminate more?
All that is just a bullsh** in order to sell more and more.
If I am forced to buy disposable (non-repairable) earbuds, I will buy a $20 - $40 pair on Amazon that sound pretty good, not a $250 pair of Airpod Pros. Once enough consumers decide the same, Apple will come up with a battery replacement or upgrade program.
Some guy making money selling repair kits and shipping them to individual homes by plane and truck and opening things by squeezing them in a vice says it's bad for the environment to have to take your earbuds to the store for replacement and recycling. Until someone can provide a detailed comparison of two designs including an accounting for how many people will utilize the repairability, this is just opinion stated as fact.
Make that argument all you want, but if you want to discuss culpability within the construct of our current economic & political system, the accountability for this is with the consumer, because we don't have proper truth-in-marketing laws, because what you've called "lying" is, legally, actually, not lying...despite all you want to think it is. Not saying that is right, but I am saying it is factual.
I heard the original AirPods had a short lifespan of only 2 years, but I’ve had a set of the original AirPods Pro since 2019 and I’d say I’ve lost only about 15% of their charge.
So, instead of 4.5 hours, I get 3 hours and 49 minutes of play time, which isn’t bad at all. That’s more than long enough for me, as I rarely wear them for longer than 2-3 hours at a time.
The way my AirPods Pro are wearing, I can see getting 5-6 years out of them, which is plenty. I mean, certainly Apple will release a new pair with a must have feature by then and I’ll want to upgrade organically.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen or even heard of anyone ever repairing any kind of headphones, ever, from when I was a kid in the 1970’s until today.
If they break, you just go out and buy a new pair. That’s how it’s always been with headphones.
So Glad I wasn't the only one who felt this way. Thankfully I gave up 30 seconds in.
I was hoping to learn more about the mysterious lanyard connection, but I guess it wasn't as interesting to actually look at what's inside as it was to complain about not having the tools to do it easily. That didn't look like an Apple issued guitar pick...
My brother has those. They struck me as substantially more bulky than my AirPods Pro when I tried them a week ago.Or so Apple wants you to believe. Both the Sony WF-1000XM4 earbuds and charging case are repairable and they don't meet my definition of "bulky".
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/...flagship-earbuds-in-this-exhaustive-teardown/
The volume in mm^3 may be the same, but the way the Sony crams all that volume into the ear rather than allowing for a stalk outside the ear I found very unpleasant.
From the article: "With technology this delicate, I think it's safe to say that repairs for the WF-1000XM4 are going to be left in the hands of experts"
I had the battery on my Galaxy Buds replaced last year.
Also, the people who own this brand were on the news some time ago. They figured out a way to change AirPods batteries
Repairability is really really important to repair shops. Super important.
But for me not so much. So websites that are hysterical about it…seem a little looney
But for me not so much. So websites that are hysterical about it…seem a little looney
At the US current rate of consumption all the trash we create for the next 1000 years will fit in 50 sq miles of landfills. Small price to pay… Texas has plenty of desert not being used for anything else.
So I replace batteries all the time in phones. That gets another few years of use out of it…but then what?
At the end of life for a product it’s still up to the USER to dispose of it properly. Apple will recycle them on your behalf in store or mail-in.
So this dogma of “replaceable battery means better for the environment” doesn’t really mean anything if the USER doesn’t take the responsible steps at the end of life for the product.
I think people miss that with all the “but Apple says it cares about the environment” hot takes. Apple can make THE most fixable products on the planet if they wanted, but from an environmental standpoint that means jack **** if someone is still going to throw it in the trash someday rather than recycling it.
You, or anybody else, having an interest is no threat to anyone else, surely not me. If you want to try to disassemble your stuff, feel free.
If you are going to do it and post a snarky and unprofessional video of it that is completely biased due to other reasons (green agenda perhaps) other than your stated interest above expect ridicule.
But by all means, have your interests. Don't care.
The first two paragraphs were fine.
The third is where you went off the rails and contradict/reveal yourself.
Which is it?
- Market to decide via spending habits?
- Governmental overlord deciding for the market via over arching "legislation"?
I understand why Apple glues everything together to get it small but for a slightly larger size it could have threads to take apart the bud or the stem to replace the battery or access earth magnets during recycling. 