[camillomiller]

A list of very normal capitalistic practices. Borderline, sometimes ruthless, sometimes opportunistic. Evil is enabling genocide in Myanmar, which Meta provenly did. Evil is voluntarily steal millions of artworks for your own benefit, which OpenAI has provenly done. Etc…

[fsflover]

Isn't polluting the environment evil? http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-airpods-repair-recycling-imposs...

[Danox]

That would describe mankind as a whole…

The cars that I’ve driven since 18, My contribution to the plastic problem over the years, etc.

[fsflover]

The difference is Apple intentionally chose unrepairable design, despite much smaller companies offer repairable earplugs (See: PineBuds Pro).

[illliillll]

Approximately no one ever breaks their AirPods, so the amount of waste eliminated through better repairability would almost certainly be non-existent.

[fsflover]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975841

[illliillll]

Extremely good chance this particular issue is resolved by merely wiping clean the contacts on the AirPods and the charging case.

[inigyou]

"it's okay to be evil if being good wasn't that good anyway"

[illliillll]

I can play the same game:

“Not virtue signalling is evil”

“Doing performative things that don’t actually improve anything but make nerds feel happy is good”

Repairability comes with tradeoffs, I like the fact that I can wear my AirPods in the shower.

[inigyou]

Those are also normal capitalistic practices.