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AirPods Pro Earpiece Tip Replacements Will Cost $4
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But cars don’t get scrapped after six years.
Let’s say for the sake of argument a car engine lasts 100’000 miles. How would people feel if a replacement engine would cost 70% of the original price for the whole car?
The cost for a ‘battery replacement’ is one thing, the fact that the whole rest of the device has to be essentially molten down (or burned or simply thrown onto a landfill) after two years is the other bone of contention (though the first aspect is actually caused by the second).
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No, $4 is certainly not expensive, but knowing Apple, this will probably be a product where the packaging costs more to manufacture than the actual product.
The previous "cheapest Apple-product", the MagSafe2 adapter is at least metal, with wiring and a magnet requiring an assembly process, it has to be more expensive to manufacture than the pretty-printed cardboard box it's sold in.
These incredibly cheap to make-injected moulded plastic pieces could very well cost less to manufacture than the cardboard box they most certainly will be delivered in.
So, making the packaging cheaper could lower the price of the product significantly while at the same time raising profit!
The previous "cheapest Apple-product", the MagSafe2 adapter is at least metal, with wiring and a magnet requiring an assembly process, it has to be more expensive to manufacture than the pretty-printed cardboard box it's sold in.
These incredibly cheap to make-injected moulded plastic pieces could very well cost less to manufacture than the cardboard box they most certainly will be delivered in.
So, making the packaging cheaper could lower the price of the product significantly while at the same time raising profit!
I won't waste money on Apple anymore. iPhones are trash after 18 months of use. iPadOS 13 made my iPad unusable...the only Apple product I have that works flawlessly...my 2018 mac mini running Windows 10. Not touching Catalina with a ten foot pole.
I'm not known for being an Apple lover, following Steve Jobs, but if you opt for the new AirPods Apple Care @ 29-bucks, you'll be covered. I begrudgingly ordered a set but I do agree; I went through two within 18-months. Tim Cook is one greedy *&%.
Except of course that the vast majority of iPhones last 5+ years (if people are willing to replace batteries and the occasional broken screen). It’s the software support and speed that eventually lead to a cutoff in the continued use of an iPhone.
If time is money then you are here "wasting" money on Apple.
I have an iPhone 5s that works well. Yes, it's slower than my Xr but it's 6 years old and still works well. It still receives OS updates (security at this point), something no other phone manufacturer provides.
it seems people these days lack critical thinking. :sigh:
Would you damage the tips 3 sizes all at once? Just think about it...
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Great! So we won’t see you here anymore I guess. Bye Bye.
I’ve never had delay issues on the gen 1 or gen 2 airpods nor on my solo beats 3
I'm sure they sounded phenomenal. A true rival to the AirPods Pro I'm sure.
$4 is way too expensive.
It probably costs $4 to produce around a thousand of those things.
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Most of them sound better even.
True. But the point that most are making is not one of environmentalism (which I assume is your point), but one of cost.
Not exactly a fair analogy. After 100,000 miles, there is lots of depreciation and a new engine could easily equal the current value of the car.
However, sticking to the car analogy, there are lots of expensive car parts that do need regular replacement: tires, batteries, filters, hoses. We recognize that these, sometimes expensive, parts wear out and choose to replace rather than repair. (I'm old enough to have heard about the habit of "retreading" tires.) The batteries could be replaced on an AirPod; but the labor expense, not the part, makes it not worth it. There are lots of things that could be repaired that we decide to just purchase new rather than incurring the labor cost. Unfortunately, due to robotics and SoC, this truth most often applies to nearly electronic device.
I'll be the first to complain the opposite.
The replacement ear buds should be no less than $40.00. What is Apple thinking, hurting their profit margins like this???
I always defend Apple because their stuff cost more but is far More quality. HOwever, this is a bit challenging.
