AirPods Are a Tragedy

Jesus, that’s a really bad article, spinning some truths, irrelevant info and memes into hate. Most of what’s written applies to all wireless headphones, wired headphones or even other consumer electronics. Also, Apple has a recycling program. Would it be too much journalism to say why it doesn’t change the situation? If they managed to recycle most of the AirPods, then I’m mostly happy with the product, and it’s entirely my fault if it ends up on a landfill.<p>True, I would wish the headphones to be more repairable, but there’s a big difference between designing a repairable washing machine and repairable wireless headphones. The design constraints are pretty tight I imagine.<p>Writing such hateful and poor quality articles is not going to improve anything.

Much of what gets laid out in the article is also true for a whole range of other disposable products of different types. Take plastic bottles, essentially the same tragedy. Companies like Apple did and still do fairly well when it comes to innovation and planting ideas in people&#x27;s head. If only they would use that creativity to make it cool again to own less products which at the same last longer and are upgradable&#x2F;servicable, some of the tragedy could be alleviated.

When my Airpods die, I&#x27;ll take them back to my local Applestore to be recycled. Apple is streets ahead of most companies in this respect.

I’ve bought 3 Apple products so far and own 2 of them. iPhone, iPad and a MacBook Air for a gift. I’m extremely happy with all of them.<p>That being said I would never buy AirPods. The reason? They make you look like a douche. Maybe the sound quality is indeed good or so I am told, but I don’t care because I don’t want to be seen wearing them. I prefer my Sennheiser 4.40 BT. I know they’re different types of headphones, but I also have Sony SBH70 for listening to music while training. The Sony is pushing 2.5 years and can work for around 6.5 hours on a charge. They’ve paid for themselves a couple of times by now.

More ridiculous clickbait outrage farming.

I see so many teenagers these days with those things in their ears. It makes me facepalm every time I see it.<p>Makes me feel good that I got such a good deal on my Audio-Technica ATH-IM04s.<p>They were normally $700 US but now they are end-of-life I got a new pair for only $391 US. win. The retailer was trying to get rid of them as they were end-of-life stock.