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Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by newaccount74 »

filoleg wrote: post #56
newaccount74 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got the original Airpods and after less than two years the battery lasted like 15 minutes in one of the pods. They are a disposable product.

Are you claiming that this is a common experience? You sure you didn't dunk yours into water or something? Because out of all people I know irl who had airpods for 2+ years, no one has reported any noticeable battery loss, let alone something as extreme as "only lasts 15 mins". I would be livid if mine lasted anywhere even close to that, but so far I am solidly in the advertised battery life range, even after 3 years…

> Also, just fyi, it seems like your unit might have been defective, in which case Apple offers free replacement

Where did you hear that? That's not my experience at all. Apple denied that there was anything wrong with my iPhone 6S that suffered from sudden shutdowns for more than a year, before they introduced the iPhone 6S battery exchange program. That was a pretty frustrating experience.

> And just the regular replacement regardless of warranty or anything like that is $49.

In Europe it's 55€ per Airpod, so the total cost would have been 110€ (the second Airpod lasted a bit longer but still not enough to make it through a movie).

110€ seemed like a steep price to pay for two new Airpods with an old charging case that will cost another 55€ when its battery inevitably dies.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by kalleboo »

hnlmorg wrote: post #270
kalleboo wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm not going to argue that many of Apples products aren't well built but MBPs have had their share of problems too Yep Apples stuff definitely has a lot of build problems as well. You can also watch one of Louis Rossman's rants for perpetual internal design issues that cause machines to be more fragile than they need to be. Although the one thing speaking in favor of buying Apple despite this is that they sell so…

Maybe not with Samsung but I've found other manufacturers to be better. Asus, for example, were very quick to resolve a battery issue I had for a laptop that was out of warranty. They even offered me a gift for my inconvenience. Apple, on the other hand, are only willing to fix issues if you pay them a substantial amount. Often a figure that approaches the cost of a new device.

I've heard plenty of anecdotes of people getting Apple to fix their Mac hardware even outside of warranty. Mostly in the US where they seem to care more about customer support. It's all anecdotes though so I have no idea how common it is.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by mensetmanusman »

hnlmorg wrote: post #255
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,…

> And yes, I know people have plenty of complaints about apple, but I never had encountered such an obvious problem with an Apple product. Have they not stress-tested this stuff? I'm not going to argue that many of Apples products aren't well built but MBPs have had their share of problems too. Such as - The butterfly keys being extremely easy to break? (I have a few keys on mine that don't work properly any more) -…

Try cleaning the speaker with distilled water and the speaker cleaning feature that pumps the water out of the watch.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by habi »

Faaak wrote: post #71

I didn't know CT scans could be that accurate. Impressive really when you see the size of the (moving) machine !

There are also (desktoptop) microCT machines, which can work with much smaller samples and produce images with much higher resolution. I have the pleasure to work with three such machines, and we routinely scan samples with a size smaller than a centimeter and with a voxel size well below 10 µm.

Here's a small (500 kb) movie of a staircase snail which I recently scanned: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/73241/download/suppl/31/ This specimen is only 2.6 mm small.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by reasonabl_human »

ValentineC wrote: post #190
14 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome to see a jail breaker here on HN. It has been my experience that when you mention the benefits of jailbreaking the HN crowd really looks poorly at it and shuts it down.

Former jailbreaker here, but still holding strong on a jailbreakable iOS version (14.3). I stopped using a jailbroken phone mainly because it was getting more and more difficult to circumvent banking app security, and it seemed like every payment-related app wants to include some form of jailbreak detection these days.

This was my experience as well- holding out on old versions of iOS + inevitably breaking normal workflows like banking ended up becoming too much of a pain, went back to a stock setup.

That and the random resprings which were likely the fault of jailbroken content I installed, but often it is too time consuming to debug exactly which tweak was causing the instability

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by truculent »

hk__2 wrote: post #214
emmanueloga_ wrote: post #172

I imagine it may be hard and they don't have incentives to "fix it", but I think the single most important disadvantage of airpods is the battery life... no matter how long it lasts, there's no way to replace it, so they became essentially discardable items. [1]? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

This has nothing to do with some evil planned obsolescence, it’s just that you can’t make a device that small while retaining (easy) battery replacement capability. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/your-wireless-earbud...

Well they had a choice to make it less small and repairable. But ultimately, they chose small and disposable.

It may not be planned obsolescence, but it's still a choice made with a certain level of disregard for consumers.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by hnlmorg »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #273
hnlmorg wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And yes, I know people have plenty of complaints about apple, but I never had encountered such an obvious problem with an Apple product. Have they not stress-tested this stuff? I'm not going to argue that many of Apples products aren't well built but MBPs have had their share of problems too. Such as - The butterfly keys being extremely easy to break? (I have a few keys on mine that don't work properly any more) -…

Try cleaning the speaker with distilled water and the speaker cleaning feature that pumps the water out of the watch.

Thanks, I will try that

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by adwn »

truculent wrote: post #276
hk__2 wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has nothing to do with some evil planned obsolescence, it’s just that you can’t make a device that small while retaining (easy) battery replacement capability. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/your-wireless-earbud...

Well they had a choice to make it less small and repairable. But ultimately, they chose small and disposable. It may not be planned obsolescence, but it's still a choice made with a certain level of disregard for consumers.

> [...] but it's still a choice made with a certain level of disregard for consumers.

Yes, OR, they did regard their customers' preference for smaller headphones.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by varjag »

but we wonder if voice pickup would have been better with the microphones pointed out of the bottom of the stems.

Wonder no more, it would not. This arrangement (aka beamforming array) is common for improved noise reduction.

The downward-facing microphone has made its return [...] could the downward-facing mic deliver better audio quality?

The 3rd gen AirPods have no active noise canceling, hence one mic arrangement. So, nope.

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