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Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by ska »

baz00 wrote: post #22
somehnguy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AirPods or AirPods pro? My current set of AirPods Pro have long outlasted my original set of AirPods in terms of battery longevity. Both very heavily used. It seems the switch from pouch cell (in regular AirPods) to button (in Pro) made a huge difference.

I killed two sets of plain Airpods. The Pros I bought crapped out after 14 months of ownership. They do get used heavily but no excuse at that price.

FWIW I have a pair of pros that crapped out around the same time, 14ish months and the mics weren't working - apple replaced them free (but not the charger) and they've gone another year or so now without issue. Obviously YMMV.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by acomjean »

baz00 wrote: post #4

I'd be interested in some fake airpods if they lasted twice as long and sounded 80% as good. Literally I get perhaps a year out of a set of genuine bought at Apple Store airpods before the case gives up or one airpod goes muffled or craps out. After a year Apple don't want to know or care unless you have AppleCare. Decided I wasn't going to fish out for a fourth set, so I bought some Sony ones for £20 with a wire bet…

Wired earbuds are back (Acording to some… and I’ve seen a few more lately out and about). I’m still using full over the ear headphones I bought 15 years ago. I had to get new pads but other than that they still sound great.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-airpods-out-why-cool-kids-a...

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/wired-earbuds-are-so...

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by askonomm »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #34
mensetmanusman wrote: post #28

What is the moral calculus of counterfeiters? Fake power adapters can kill.

Poverty and desperation can often drive people to bend their moral compass quite a bit.

I tend to believe that a moral compass is a made-up social invention. Children don't have it. We have to teach them these made up rules, how you should feel when you do something against those rules, etc. We ingrain it deep into you much like how religion is ingrained deep into young people, so that by the time you are an adult that's all you know, and it seems to work well, most people never even second guess these things.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by rob74 »

> The counterfeit AirPods even resort to using internal weights with no other function than to mimic the heft of the genuine product

That's ironic, as being lighter would actually be an advantage (makes them less likely to fall out on sudden movements).

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by MarkusWandel »

On the real vs. fake Apple product front: I get a lot of my electronic bric-a-brac from garage sales. The little iPhone cube chargers are so cute and practical, but: Is it a real one, or a dangerously cost-reduced fake? By comparison, less cute chargers from other major brands, that aren't a target for counterfeiting, are therefore more trustworthy. This is another "why we can't have nice things" kind of problem.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by baz00 »

acomjean wrote: post #42
baz00 wrote: post #4

I'd be interested in some fake airpods if they lasted twice as long and sounded 80% as good. Literally I get perhaps a year out of a set of genuine bought at Apple Store airpods before the case gives up or one airpod goes muffled or craps out. After a year Apple don't want to know or care unless you have AppleCare. Decided I wasn't going to fish out for a fourth set, so I bought some Sony ones for £20 with a wire bet…

Wired earbuds are back (Acording to some… and I’ve seen a few more lately out and about). I’m still using full over the ear headphones I bought 15 years ago. I had to get new pads but other than that they still sound great. https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-airpods-out-why-cool-kids-a... https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/wired-earbuds-are-so...

I do use wired ones when I'm at the PC. I have some Sennheiser HD25's my ex wife bought me over 20 years ago.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by AlecSchueler »

Tade0 wrote: post #38
AlecSchueler wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But in this case they ended up with no product, the same starting money and a bunch of time/energy lost.

The way I read it they ended up with double the starting money, because they both got a refund and sold the headphones.

Ah yes, apologies for the miscalculation.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by LoganDark »

EwanToo wrote: post #25
filleokus wrote: post #16

I really enjoy these scans that have been popping up lately, so cool to see inside of things! Are there any intellectually property issues related to publishing these? I've had a piece of (probably false) information stuck in my mind about how industrial design can be IP protected in some way, making it problematic to publish x-rays without licensing. Which I've thought of as another silly example of IP gone mad. But…

I have a similar probably false memory of schematics having copyrighted writing embedded in them so the layout can't be reproduced without a breach of copyright.

Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
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