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Surely it will be possible to replace them in repair shops? Not for the home gamer obviously, but neither are screen repairs - and I’m really happy with my third party screen repair.

My AirPods also lack battery capacity now, to a degree that it’s annoyingly short. I accidentally came over a second pair, but yeah a new pair of earphones every two to three years sounds expensive to me.

Problem is, they work so spectacularly well otherwise that I don’t know how that I could stand anything else. Part of this is that Apple seem to intentionally make other headsets work less well. For example by not routing calls through the headset by default, such a joke.



There was an article on HN recently about someone who took apart their AirPods. The battery was glued in, and not possible to remove and replace.


I've seen people take apart them on YouTube for silly mods before, should surely be possible? Maybe with a heatgun?


Just checked. Yes, you can.


An even larger issue is that taking it apart at all requires destroying the device.




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