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AirPods Teardown Reveals Charging Case May Have Been Cause of Delay
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iFixit has admitted that the products they sell make up a very small amount of their profits. Getting people to come to the site and the ad dollars they generate from people viewing these tear downs is where they make almost all of their money.
Forgive me but nothing in my quote has anything to do with iFixit's profits or how they generate them. I specifically addressed the repairability scores and what they mean to DIY'ers. Even if we were to delve into their profits their repairability scores aren't germane. More so, afaik reading about the teardown on MR doesn't generate any income for iFixit.
50? Go back to the 90s with one of these and an iPhone and the world would be amazed.
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Horses don't come cheap.I know why these cost £159 over the earpods!
Glue is quite expensive nowadays!
Thanks for posting that. I was thinking the same thing while reading this.
so just half the trip then... i kind of just realized that the 90s were 25 years ago
If you live in America, this might be about to happen.
That photo of them tearing down the AirPod charging case looks pretty much like how I tear down things, lol. Good work Apple—even iFixit couldn't tear this down cleanly! Is this the first 0/10 score? It seems like most Apple products at least get a 1/10, lol.
Looks like good news about the charging battery capacity. I figure if you have the AirPods in the case while it's charging from 0, that's 9 full charges? That's 45 hours of battery life per week, which is plenty to get me through the day. Nice. I wonder why Apple rated the battery life so low then? Even with the base level of 8 charges, that's 40 hours, and Apple has it listed as 24 hours. Has anyone stress tested this yet to see how many hours it can go for? I wonder if the 15 minute quick charging is less efficient.
Looks like good news about the charging battery capacity. I figure if you have the AirPods in the case while it's charging from 0, that's 9 full charges? That's 45 hours of battery life per week, which is plenty to get me through the day. Nice. I wonder why Apple rated the battery life so low then? Even with the base level of 8 charges, that's 40 hours, and Apple has it listed as 24 hours. Has anyone stress tested this yet to see how many hours it can go for? I wonder if the 15 minute quick charging is less efficient.
So the idea is iFixIt's inability to take it apart and put it together again is some sort of smoking gun? I guess iFixIt would be the arbiter of good vs bad gadgets based on this single parameter. Forget that it's important restive engineering on a tiny scale, it's actually a "hot mess."
In other news, iFixIt declares these Nobel Prize winning inventions also to be hot messes, since they can't take them apart either.
In other news, iFixIt declares these Nobel Prize winning inventions also to be hot messes, since they can't take them apart either.
I have utterly no clue what this comment means. Does using adhesives correlate with poor quality assurance?
The guy in the video who drops and submerges them brings up a good point why they are best in white. So they are easy to find if you drop them especially at night. I don't think they will fall out of your ears but can easily imagine dropping them when your are taking them out or putting them in.
You don't think that the links in this article are driving countless clicks for iFixit? Don't kid yourself.
Perhaps not, but good thing Apple has sites like iFixit doing QC on their products.
If I were Apple, I'd certainly want to know if my own products were being manufactured with shoddy soldering jobs.
It's worrying to note that Apple seemingly rushed out the product and sacrificed a degree of quality. It's not something you would expect of Apple of old. It's kind of sad.
So we're just changing the topic now? Okay cool. Have you seen the new trailer for Injustice 2? It's killer. Even better, the trailer for the Last of Us 2 is absolutely gorgeous. Just yankin' your chain.
But both trailers are great.Again, my quote had nothing to do with iFixit's profits. It was about the repairability score.
on a device like this lots of glue is fine by me i dont expect them to add the weight of tiny screws and what comes with that.
its a pair of 159$ earphones that can be purchased in seperate parts should anything happen.
There is a reason for everyone going into headphone business.. low partcost, easy transport and high salesprices ... it has almost become like the perfumes fameous people make.
even apple do not expect to be messing in those headphones.. they will end up in the dump at some point and apple will replace any headphones broken within warranty. far far far cheaper to produce and send a new one than to repair them.
its a pair of 159$ earphones that can be purchased in seperate parts should anything happen.
There is a reason for everyone going into headphone business.. low partcost, easy transport and high salesprices ... it has almost become like the perfumes fameous people make.
even apple do not expect to be messing in those headphones.. they will end up in the dump at some point and apple will replace any headphones broken within warranty. far far far cheaper to produce and send a new one than to repair them.
So far, we always need to plug in something at somewhere to charge a device, or to convert a power source into another form. I don't think wireless charging was intended to eliminate plugs, but to simplify the repeatitive action of connecting cables.
How about having access to this forum 50 years ago? Could you imagine our opinions on the US space program and color televisions?
I wish I could go back in time and show nikola Tesla an iPhone with a pair of airpods
