The one thing to note though is that every Bluetooth headphone is pretty much disposable.
I run/bike for one hour every day and do about 30 minutes of body weight exercises. Thats all I use my airpods for. When the weather is cold the batteries die in about 45-60 minutes, bit better when its warmer. The Airpods are just over a year old.
I always find this point curious because I personally usually had the opposite experience: most wired headphones I've owned in my life broke at some point and became waste, and most of the time it was the wire that broke. This goes both for Apple's own wired earbuds, aswell as some wired headphones from other companies. The wire itself is undeniably one of the, if not the most failure-prone part of most wired headphones, and on completely wireless earphones, that point of failure is completely eliminated.
There are a few type of headphones where the wire is detachable, but when it's firmly connected to the headphone itself, then you can basically throw the headphones away when the cable has any issue. Which really means that a lot of wired headphones are disposable products aswell.
Admittedly, I never was very gentle with my earbuds, usually tucking them into my pocket or squeezing them somewhere in my backpack, which probably put a lot of stress on the cables. But now I do the
exact same thing with my AirPods and they have yet to suffer from any issue through that after 2.5 years, whereas I don't think any of my old earbuds survived longer than maybe a year without any damage to the cable, so we should hold wired and wireless headphones to the same standards in this regard when we're talking about how disposable they are. There are no cables on for example the AirPods that are destined to break after a couple months of stress, squeezing and tangling, which is a big plus for longevity.
Nevertheless, I agree that battery degradation is still a big problem for wireless headphones, one that I hope we'll be able to solve or at least minimize at some point. The AirPods are one of the worst contenders in this regard because their small batteries are especially prone to suffer from the effects of degradation, but on a lot of other wireless headphones with bigger batteries, the effect of the degradation is a lot less drastic, and not a very noticeable issue for many people. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if these Powerbeats Pro hold up a lot better battery-wise than the AirPods after a few years; it might be an interesting long-term advantage.
