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Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by bgroins »

BoorishBears wrote: post #139
treve wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet I know lots of people with defects in Apple products. I replaced multiple laptops. Is there real evidence of fewer defects?

I have a Consumer Reports account and doing a quick search the only laptops with a 5/5 "Predicted Reliability" rating are from Apple, everything else is a 4/5 or less It looks like LG would be the likely 2nd place as well, since they're the only brand besides Apple consistently getting a 5/5 on "Owner Satisfaction"

The Gram series has been phenomenal in my experience, especially considering the price.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by passivate »

ehnto wrote: post #161
dereg wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The generosity of Apple's support during Steve's era was unparalleled. It created a great deal of goodwill for the company within the iPhone/Mac community. Like you said, supports now is delayed, difficult, rigid, and merciless. Somewhere along the line, Apple forgot that its retail stores and support were products in and of themselves.

They also grew exponentially and started serving everyone, not just technophiles. Support at such a large scale is an interesting problem. The apple store in my city always has lines out the door and the store is huge. They probably have to handle everything from broken devices to general troubleshooting, and for everyone from tech empathetic individuals to ludites, old people to young, and reasonable to agressive an…

Apple brought it on themselves with their anti-repair stance. Third party repair companies are literally begging them for parts so they can service Apple products. In other industries, there are a large number of quality technicians who can service consumer products without a problem.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by passivate »

Tagbert wrote: post #93
t-writescode wrote: post #6

I wonder if this explains / clarifies some of the difficulty in getting repair tech for the earbuds. They seem to change in major ways each time.

Much of the repair problems has to do with how small they are and the components are tiny and must be assembled so carefully that humans with fingers are just not at the right scale.

But we've made tools to overcome human limitations, so that is not really the issue. Apple just doesn't want their products repaired - or at the very least it is not a priority for them. Its just not a good look when they pretend to be "green" while not contributing towards the elephant in the garbage bin - e-waste.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by DwnVoteHoneyPot »

bgroins wrote: post #191
BoorishBears wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a Consumer Reports account and doing a quick search the only laptops with a 5/5 "Predicted Reliability" rating are from Apple, everything else is a 4/5 or less It looks like LG would be the likely 2nd place as well, since they're the only brand besides Apple consistently getting a 5/5 on "Owner Satisfaction"

The Gram series has been phenomenal in my experience, especially considering the price.

I had a LG Gram. Awesome. So light, had latest gen CPU when Apple didnt. All the ports that Apple didn’t have. Linux worked too. The only reason i went back to Apple is the trackpad. If Linux sorts that out, back to LG Gram.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by dave_aiello »

Lammy wrote: post #49

Does anyone have a canonical URL to the previous month's scan of the LEGO mini-figure? I didn't see any navigation on the site unless there's a magic spot I missed or am inadvertently adblocking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253441 This month's entry comes off way too much like advertising for my taste, with the flowery language like "magic features" instead of just "features", or the seemingly-unnecessary…

That was my first thought when I saw the CT scans of the AirPods: where is the canonical URL for this, and where is the archive of previous analyses?

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by sQL_inject »

patentatt wrote: post #163
sQL_inject wrote: post #125

Some small but important details about the product architecture that's changed over time somewhat: - The antenna is sticking out of the ear, while the densest components are deeper in the ear, making them more stable. Now the battery is in the ear and PCB is out of the ear. - They've added large external mesh over the world-facing mic to reduce windnoise during phone calls. This creates a sort of turbulence that prev…

> The airpods had two Infrared Detectors to prevent being spoofed when resting on the table. Can you elaborate on this?

They use two so that if you rest the airpods on table in various positions, at least one IR sensor is pointing away from a surface. They turn on and off the device (pause, play) once both IR windows are covered by human skin (or detect a surface) which is the scenario in which they are fully in your ear. If they used only a single IR, the function wouldn't work if taken out of the ear and say laid face down on a book or table.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by sQL_inject »

Tildey wrote: post #148
sQL_inject wrote: post #125

Some small but important details about the product architecture that's changed over time somewhat: - The antenna is sticking out of the ear, while the densest components are deeper in the ear, making them more stable. Now the battery is in the ear and PCB is out of the ear. - They've added large external mesh over the world-facing mic to reduce windnoise during phone calls. This creates a sort of turbulence that prev…

As much as I like the fun factor of my magnetic 2nd gen case, it is inherently flawed. The magnets attract magnetic particles, and as the lid is repeatedly closed they're slowly beaten into the plastic and I've never been able to get those marks out. I imagine with a manget-free hinge this would be severely minimised, as everywhere outside of the magnets there is basically no staining.

well the magnet you're referring to are closure magnets, not the hinge magnet. You can see them on iFixit's teardown as black rectangles. Those magnets attract gnarly metallic bits which, yes, permanently make marks on the surfaces of the interior. Airpods OG vs. Pro for comparison. Both have closure magnets, I think the primary reason to move away from them was space, based on the internals.

https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/f3k1ysoFjvJ5xoF5.lar... https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/DSCA4bK5SAlTVGtn.lar...

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by rajivm »

deep-root wrote: post #184
snapcore wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, they are the same as everything else, people constantly say they are superb on here, but looking up reliability surveys says otherwise: https://www.geckoandfly.com/6311/the-most-reliable-laptop-su...

This link states in 2018 Apple (1st place on reliability with 665 pts) was 2-3x more reliable than Samsung (2nd place 270 pts). Then in 2019 Apple suddenly became half as reliable (now 130pts) as Samsung? Seems suspect at best. They seem to rank based on all service calls to their third party IT firm. Apple's top service calls were printer and email help (40% between them) and hardware was 0.53%.[1] [1] https://www.r…

That reliability matches my anecdotal experience. I've had multiple failures of the 2019-2020 MacBook Pro 15" & 16" models. Gone through 4 machines, and these mostly sat on desks during the pandemic. One machine due to keyboard stickiness to the point of unusability (this of course is the most known issue). Two slow logic board failures (increasingly frequent kernel panics until the machine no longer worked); the second one I didn't wait until it fully failed. One display failure.

I just switched to the new M1 Pro 16" which I'm hopeful has resilience that matches my earlier Macs that would last 4+ years -- it seems like Apple has reverted 5 years of design choices with this model (ports, MagSafe, weight, thickness, edges, keyboard -- of course with better battery/performance/screen).

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by larkinrichards »

kiwijamo wrote: post #175
elzbardico wrote: post #100

This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality. Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn't want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming. Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor,…

Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks. I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase. I've also owned…

during a delivery once, i caught a curb, flipped upside down on a bicycle, landed laptop down, bent the frame of my 2014 macbook pro, and the screen survived undamaged. still using the same laptop today, no issue. anecdotal evidence… is anecdotal.
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