• genoxidedev1@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The “purpose-built to fall apart” is real, I used to have a best friend who had to get new apple headphones every 2-3 weeks because they always somehow broke.

    My apple headphone clones on the other hand lasted at best 2 years and at worst I can’t say yet because this is the second pair I got from the manufacturer and they’re still going strong. And I usually handle my headphones like shit, though not intentionally, of course, but the usual wear and tear.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Your friend is incredible if he’s able to kill Apple’s headphones in under a month. Unironically he should apply to work for some of these companies for QA if he’s actually capable of doing that.

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      1 year ago

      For all of my suckerdom, the one Apple thing I don’t buy is headphones. Between the pre-sale engineered obsolescence and the post-sale engineered obsolescence (looking at you, AirPods and your declining noise-canceling levels after software “updates” as a new model is about to launch), I managed to achieve escape velocity to other headphone brands. Love the Sony WF-1000XM series for noise-canceling earbuds.