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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 mportela »

askonomm wrote: post #43
AlecSchueler wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

As most things in life, it is more complicated than that. While the environment plays a major role in people's moral codes, there seems to be at least some innate development happening too. I'm not a trained psychologist but I've seen scientific evidence on some of these behaviors already showing up in babies as young as a few weeks old, suggesting some of the things we consider to be culturally nurtured can actually be part of the species as a whole. Netflix has an easy-to-digest docu-series called Babies and episode S0204 talks about that, if you're interested.

[1] https://www.netflix.com/title/80117833

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by SushiHippie »

keithxm23 wrote: post #13

This is the second time inside a month I've seen Lumafield portray Apple products engineering prowess. First time being when they compared the USB-C cable (unfairly because they compared against the wrong type of third party USB-C). Is this just happenstance or is there a connection between the two companies?

It would be even more interesting for me if they'd compare these things against "real" competitors, i.e. in the same price range or the same quality, and not just "here is the XXX$ apple product vs this XX$ counterfeit". Otherwise these scans are really cool

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Post by JCharante »

latchkey wrote: post #2

My partner bought fake AirPods off ebay. We kind of had a feeling they'd be fake but felt it was worth the risk. We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them. The pods themselves looked exactly the same. The case was the real sign. It was clearly not the same as an original case. They actually worked, but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones. We ended up listing them…

> but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones.

I heard that there are fake airpods that will connect and behave just like a normal airpod to iphones, as if they have a fake H1 chip or something. Can anyone confirm?

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by dewey »

rob74 wrote: post #44

> 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).

I'm not sure that's true, I'd assume gravity is doing _some_ kind of job in keeping them inside by pulling down. I think losing them would be a lot easier if they were very light.

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Post by JCharante »

kajic wrote: post #49

I just learned from this article that AirPods can be charged by the Apple Watch charger. Wow, I had no idea.

That's the airpods pro 2 case, which also features speakers at the bottom (for help with locating). Airpods Pro 1 didn't have this feature, but they did have wireless charging.

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Post by JCharante »

kayodelycaon wrote: post #21
user_7832 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Apple tries to protect from damaging sound levels and frequencies, and could be held to account in a way that counterfeiters could not. I doubt Apple tries this too much, or that they could be held accountable. There is the volume alert thing, but that (partially) works with 3rd party headphones too (though it's likely much more inaccurate). Android phones too give a warning if you set the volume very high for head…

There’s a headphones safety section in the sound settings on iPhones for reducing loud sounds and setting a maximum decibel limit.

I often accidentally set my phone volume to max by holding the volume button for too long, so enabling this setting earlier this year has been really helpful. 10/10 would recommend everyone to set this.

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Post by JCharante »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #28

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

It would be cool if they could put a chip inside the chargers and have the charger communicate over USB C whether it's authentic or not. Of course you could still use third party chargers that would lack this chip, but for people who like first party chargers or buying chargers from reputable brands (that would probably license this from Apple) it would be nice.

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Post by JCharante »

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.

How many people knowledgeable to mass produce fake chargers are in poverty? My assumption is that it's greed.

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Post by darkclouds »

latchkey wrote: post #2

My partner bought fake AirPods off ebay. We kind of had a feeling they'd be fake but felt it was worth the risk. We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them. The pods themselves looked exactly the same. The case was the real sign. It was clearly not the same as an original case. They actually worked, but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones. We ended up listing them…

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Post by thomasqbrady »

JCharante wrote: post #53
latchkey wrote: post #2

My partner bought fake AirPods off ebay. We kind of had a feeling they'd be fake but felt it was worth the risk. We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them. The pods themselves looked exactly the same. The case was the real sign. It was clearly not the same as an original case. They actually worked, but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones. We ended up listing them…

> but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones. I heard that there are fake airpods that will connect and behave just like a normal airpod to iphones, as if they have a fake H1 chip or something. Can anyone confirm?

Yes. I have a set that appear to my iPhone to be legit, including auto-connect/disconnect, noise-canceling modes and all, though the functionality isn’t actually reliable. My iPhone doesn’t seem to know any difference between my real AirPods Pro 2 and these fakes.
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