[pavel_lishin]

> "Years of average use" is great until you realize that it actually means "Roughly 12 to 15 hours of recording".

Is that based on anything, or is that just a guess?

Anyway, 12 hours' worth of 30 second recordings is a total of 1440 recordings. I guess three a day for a year does seem a little low?

> Just hate Apple and love e-waste rings? Enlighten me.

What e-waste? You send it in for recycling; they might just replace the battery and send you a your existing ring back.

[jfindper]

>Is that based on anything, or is that just a guess?

Fancy enough, it's from the article!

Right under the "How long does the battery last?" heading.

[pavel_lishin]

Ah, I see, I didn't ctrl-f far down enough.

[wkat4242]

That's not what recycling is. If you get it back it's recruitment.

[wkat4242]

Sorry I meant refurbishment. Not recruitment. DYAC

[oniony]

You have to trust it will actually get recycled though. I struggle to believe they'll be swapping out the batteries and reselling these as reconditioned. (I struggle to believe many people will even send them in for recycling tbh.)

[wkat4242]

The environmental benefit of sending it in for recycling is probably negated by transporting it all the way back to them for starters. Better to just drop it at the local ewaste collection facility. They'll be less specialised but there isn't a lot of material in it.

I guess there's a market for it and in the scale of things it isn't so bad: you could make 10 disposable vape sticks from the materials in one of these rings. And they're expensive enough that they'll never sell more than 100k or so of them. Relatively speaking it's no measurable impact.

For me it's more a matter of principle though. As a society we frown on disposable gizmos these days and for good reason.