[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]

There are many waterproof repairable products.

[illliillll]

From who should I order the repairable wireless earbuds which are also better than the AirPods Pro 3 in every way?

It just doesn’t seem in any way reasonable to assume that “evil” is the simplest explanation here, especially since nobody is repairing the repairable wireless earbuds anyway.

If approximately nobody wants to repair their earbuds, why accept any design tradeoffs in the name of repairability? I can’t see it.

[inigyou]

if nobody wants to run anything besides Candy Crush and Snapchat on their phones then why should Apple be forced to allow installing other apps?