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Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by TheGRS »

bsamuels wrote: post #3

I will personally love to see someone justify spending $250 on wireless earphones whose batteries cannot be replaced. I'm a year and a half into my normal airpods and they already need new batteries.

I dunno, I felt the same way about the normal Airpods until I relented and bought them and its almost weird to say that its been a huge quality of life improvement for me. Running is far more enjoyable without the cables. Pretty easy to carry them around too.

But then again I didn't shop around the other brands at all.

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by scarface74 »

krastanov wrote: post #34
webwielder2 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why spend $100 on a nice dinner, we'll just have to eat again in 8 hours.

There used to be an expectation of longevity in the electronics we purchase. Even while Moore's law was in full effect, you could find good uses for a 6 year old computer. Today's computer hardware can easily remain fully usable for a decade. The notion of buying a laptop or phone, let alone headphones, every year is ludicrous and actively harmful to the environment.

Well, batteries have never had a long useful life, and since the batteries (Airpods + case) make up most of the mass, replacing the battery would have most of the environmental impact.

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Post by semiotagonal »

danso wrote: post #49

The customizable fit is all I was looking for. I bought the originals but gifted them to my parents, because my ear is messed up from years of high school wrestling without wearing headgear. I know I'm an edge case, but there have been plenty of other great earbuds (wireless and traditional) that use soft flexible tips over the past decade.

The default Apple headphones that come with the iPhones never fit in my ears properly, so I've assumed traditional Airpods don't either. They should make dummy versions of the new ones so they can be tried out.

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Post by scarface74 »

netsharc wrote: post #37
w0utert wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get the batteries of your AirPods replaced, it seems: https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service

The wording on that page shows replacing the batteries mean they give you an entire new Airpod (or 2). They say "replacement airpod" instead of "repaired airpod". Great for the environment...

And if they "replaced" the battery -- the thing that causes the most environmental harm???

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by kofejnik »

stinos wrote: post #40
kofejnik wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am sooo going to buy them the moment they are available; convenience is totally worth it for me, even if they have to be replaced every year

even if they have to be replaced every year These are undeniably really nice products for the target audience, but the direction we as a humanity are going with disposable products has been and still is problematic and products like this do not help, on the contrary. Everyone is free to ignore that, but I personally cannot justify it. Especially knowing that just adding a wire buys me a better sounding product which…

you are missing the point; convenience is in having noise-cancelling headphones in my pocket, for when I want to do some coding in a cafe or in flight

for sound quality, I have my Sennheiser over-ears and an external sound card

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by mullingitover »

This is a huge improvement. The regular airpods are the same shape as the original iphone earbuds, and my normal ritual with those was to immediately throw them in the trash as soon as I opened any Apple product because they're horribly uncomfortable. Am I the only one who notices this?

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Post by vowelless »

jonlucc wrote: post #26
vowelless wrote: post #4

I started getting severe ear issues with my normal AirPods. Due to a lack of cushioning, my ear canals started getting damaged. It got very painful eventually (swimmers ear levels of pain). I stopped using them and went back to my Bose in ear headphones (that never gave me problems). These new AirPods seem to have cushioning. I might consider them.

Which Bose headphones do you use that don't give you trouble? It looks like the most similar pair would be the SoundSport Free?

You’re right. I use:

“Bose SoundSport Wireless Headphones”

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by scarface74 »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #35
bsamuels wrote: post #3

I will personally love to see someone justify spending $250 on wireless earphones whose batteries cannot be replaced. I'm a year and a half into my normal airpods and they already need new batteries.

Still shocked Apple gets such good PR about their environmental work when one of their most popular products is 3 batteries in plastic sarcophaguses that needs to be replaced every 18 months. At the end of humanity there will still be corroded burst airpods and funko dolls washing up on beaches.

So have you found rechargeaeble batteries that don't need to be replaced in 18 months?
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