[prmoustache]

The point is mostly to avoid ewaste, not save money.

[LegitShady]

if they wanted to avoid ewaste they wouldn't have removed the 3.5mm jack and I would still use normal headphones.

[ray_v]

I guess that's also kinda my poorly made point -- I imagine that these earbuds are like any other electronic device in the fact that they'll break in a handful of years and end up being irreparable in some way that results in just replacing them. I'm not sure what the answer is to any of this of course

[dzhiurgis]

Fair, but tiny earbuds are not exactly massive contributor to ewaste (or total waste).