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Can we talk about how smooth and beautiful the website is? I know, it's Apple and their websites are always the same, but there's always a tiny increment. This time it's the woman adjusting the ANC by holding her Airpods. The way she fades in and the scroll controls her every movement and then fades out is just so smooth.
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It's much more ecological to recycle a battery than to recycle a 100% working product because the internal battery died.
When more than 50% of the mass is the battery?
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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???
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If you want inexpensive, SE 215 is what you're looking for, for $99. I have the 535's, which are a step up in drivers, and I love them. They aren't reference quality (which I recommend Etymotics for, and you can buy the isolating sleves for them), and are a bit on the warm side. The 425s are fairly similar, but the 535s are a bit clearer in the high-mids. Any Shure headphones will have better sound quality than Apple…
>If you want inexpensive, SE 215 is what you're looking for, for $99. Shure has jumped the shark. I own these and have stopped endorsing them, the sound quality is utterly rubbish compared to some alternative wireless pairs, which might cost a little bit more, but even a punt on some of the cheaper pairs like Airdots et al. would be worth it.
I can recommend the 1more E1001 triple driver for a similar price point but better sound.
For sound quality I have a pair of in-ear B&O but they are falling apart after a couple years which is pretty annoying because the sound quality is really good.
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.
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In the older bose headsets you could slap an AAA batteries and be good for a while. These types of batteries won't disappear anytime soon. Anyway, in 5 years when bose stops producing the qc35 battery pack no one will be able to replace them whereas people using bose qc25 will just have to get new AAA batteries. Either apple talks the talk and walks the walk or it simply shut up about climate, no one cares about virt…
> In the older bose headsets you could slap an AAA batteries and be good for a while. These types of batteries won't disappear anytime soon. You'll generate far more waste from AAA batteries in the time it takes for the Airpod batteries to require disposal.
Can we talk about how smooth and beautiful the website is? I know, it's Apple and their websites are always the same, but there's always a tiny increment. This time it's the woman adjusting the ANC by holding her Airpods. The way she fades in and the scroll controls her every movement and then fades out is just so smooth.
I found it awful. I'm running on a very beefy development machine in the latest version of Firefox and it was kinda sluggish and very hard to read all of the information (felt like I had to scroll forever just to see a few sentences and pictures). It's also very inaccessible.
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Why would AirPods usage be a useful model for estimating the expected lifetime of Powerbeats pros?
What other data do I have to go on? PBPs have only been out for like a year. I figure I'll use the new ones in patterns similar to the old ones. PBPs have a bigger battery, so if I get two years out of AirPods it's not unreasonable to expect the same or more out of PBPs.