“Can it mute the guilt of wearing unrepairable e-waste”??? Your writers are out of control. Power to you guys and your cause but literally no one who buys AirPods will ever feel said guilt
99% of consumers don’t care about e-waste and it’s not our responsibility either. Big corporations should always be held accountable for big issues. I’m not wasting my life saddled with guilt over my “carbon footprint” and all that BS.
Sorry dude but I feel differently. Concerns about repairability would show that they are being more conscious and considerate, since at Apple's scale they literally sell stuff by the million, it cannot be said to be a small deal.
Why not also make a teardown of some earbuds, that actually are designed to be repairable? Would be great to also show people an example of how it should be done. Sony WF-1000XM4 for example, isn't glued together and even has coin cell batteries that can be replaced relatively easily.
Sony earbuds are also poorly made unreliable junk. I haven’t touched Sony earbuds for 10 years because every pair I bought died within three months. Sometimes a product is poorly made rather than being “easily repairable.”
I'm still hoping for an iFixit collabo with some makers to see "replacement shells" made, so that the guts of the iBuds can be transferred into a case that allows easier service. iFixit has been at this long enough, that more sophisticated teardown methods might be employed... cnc, for example. With the fancy lithography, you can see where the battery is, so that "ooh scary" part shouldn't really have been necessary, except as a public service...
Apple advertises that they're going environmentally friendly and they are getting it in some areas, but how is their newest pair in the lineup even worse than the last. So much for being eco friendly! They have ofc been making progress, but again this is their NEWEST PAIR in the LINEUP. HOW?
@@sorrows_touch what about the fact that they dont repair their devices in most markets outside of the us. And with their software locks if your iphone breaks, apple just says chuck it in the ocean 🙄. Some serious environment saving.
@@iustin1658 I didn't say that was right either, I think Samsung making so many models per year is way worse than what Apples doing but this video was about Apple
shenzhen repair shops have been able to replacing airpods batteries without leaving a mark for some time, and yet ifxit still don't know how to tear down airpods without a vibroknife
Exactly. They cried about Apple Watch ultra being too hard to repair and broke the screen during tear down, while I’ve seen loads of easy tear downs from Chinese repairers😂
Yes. I can't remember but I watched a RUclips video of a tech repair channel that has custom repair equipment for airpods. The dude changed the batter in both the case and the buds in like 7 minutes
So true! I opened the casing on these in just minutes by squeezing the casing, then sliding my 10mm filling knife in the gap! Obviously I still damaged the PCB because the cable connectos are bonded in 🙄 Thankfully I found it in the streets and only wanted the cells for a project 🥳
Airpods are around 40gr with case. Your car radio has 100x more e-waste. You could get new airpods every year of your life and not accumulate enough e-waste for 1 tv, or 1 laptop, or 1 toaster. Not to mention a fridge, an oven or a stereo system. To make a case for Apple.
Also repair what, exactly? The airpod batteries constitute more than half of the ewaste of the product. From an engineering perspective I don't see how repairable earbuds make sense, might be wrong.
@@AJ-wf1vh lmao you're saying a repairable 300€ premium product doesn't make sense, but a disposable one does. You can eather waste money or get repairable ones like sony wf-1000xm4 where you spend like 20€ for new batteries instead of 300€ when the batteries go bad.
Btw, I've been using 2 pairs of chinesium 20$ earbuds daily for 3 years that are not repairable The battery on both of them is still solid I don't even have an excuse to replace them I have no doubts that if apple engineered theirs correctly, they will last around 5 years until the battery goes bad. If you keep them for that long, they'll probably disintegrate before that point It's nice that the sonys are repairable, but they're also bigger
iFixit always manages to make the most worthless teardown video ever. I just wasted three precious minutes watching this, which can’t be good for the environment.
@@hoonetic haha, well, I posted that, not because I think he isn’t right, but I got tired of the constant shitting on Apple narrative the entire video. Like come on, a comment or two is fine, but it gets old
@@jereburkholder5137 they need calling out. They are the no.1 selling wireless earbuds in the world. Nearly all of it will end up in landfill in a few years, simply because you can’t replace a battery. Apple can do better and iFixit do praise them when they get things right (iPhone 14)
Wasting one product which is calling out a product being unrepairable e waste problem is way better than leaving how the Apple and most companies making wireless earbuds that are disposable products in just few years. These kind of products will he a nightmare in the near future. Even the drivers works fine, but the batteries won't. The short lifespan of these kind of products will produce more waste than a smartphone that least can last longer if you don't care about getting latest and the greatest.
Apple no longer cares about what anyone thinks, as long as millons of apple fanboys and fangirls continue to run out and buy the latest apple gadget as soon as it's released.
Getting into these isn't as destructive as you guys make it. it's difficult, but you can replace the batteries in these without destroying them. That being said the Sony WF1000XM4s and LinkBuds S are much much easier to get into and don't require soldering
I think it might've been a little over played in the video, but their point on the environment still stands. What normal average person would be able to confidently open a pair of airpods to change the battery? The average person would take them to Apple would've upsold them on getting Apple Care and they would've gotten a new pair chunking the old one. In my experience when my AirPods pros microphone was damaged, Apple had me "send them in for repair" and then it was in a "awaiting repair" queue for weeks. Eventually the repair tracking disappeared and got my "repaired" airpods back. It was a new pair. Another thing, how is Apple going to intergrade these into their recycling program? I really really doubt there is a magic machine they have that disassembles this in a cost effective way that Apple would be okay with. If Apple were upfront about it I wouldn't care. But given my experience and the fact Apple has all of this "we love the environment" stuff, it really shows the true values behind the company. It is a shame that we as consumers can be lied to and Apple will likely never be held accountable for their actions in misleading consumers that their products are some how more environmentally friendly than other electronics, when they all end up in the same place slowly polluting our world.
I don't like the last couple of teardown made by iFixit, they don't have the same vibe in ly opinion and now it's just ranting and ranting without explaining much compared to before
Yes we get it, they're terrible to repair. But I'd love to get some more explanation to the parts. I'm looking at the single hole next to the port and speaker at the bottom of the charging case. What's that?
It would be cool to be able to repair them but the question is how? Didn't fairphone make ones and they still aren't repairable? I think it's not really easy to do
I know, right? Everyone argues that they should be repairable but considering the size, considering the need for them to be durable to a point.. It would take a lot of effort, and time to try to repair small earbuds without breaking them, no-one would want to repair them considering how small they are, how hard it is to complete. If you had them long enough to worry about the battery, theres going to be a huge amount of ear wax, along with dirt etc. It would cost bare minimum $100 to do it, even if the battery was free. You could fairly easily get a new pair of them for that price. Small electronics are difficult to repair quickly without breaking them Not to mention by the time theyre dead, new versions will most likely be out
@@Iisakki3000 he is right. when you bought airpods back in 2019, why wouldnt you now just get gen3s? theyre much better, repairing old ones would be a waste of time and money. phones are a different story, you can keep them for up to 6 years with apples updates. earbuds are not designed to be kept this long. especially the tiny batteries.
The whole “environmental disaster” seems super overdone. This is like 30 ccs you throw away every 3+ years or so. Do people not realize how much is thrown away every day?
@@toasterbread75 A pretty big drop in the bucker when tens of millions of these become trash in just 2-3 years. This also requires way way way more energy and precious metals etc to be made than say a plastic bag.
I feel like the only real way to make the buds easily repairable would be to take the bottom and put a screw in that, attach the driver and wireless chip (whatever it becomes) with a magnet connector and have the rest of the bus slide out from the bottom iPod-mini style. I’ll say this, while it’s painful to know these are going to ewaste it’s hard to make something as small as a literal headphone jack repairable.
If they could use an adhesive for the seam where the two halves connect that could be seperated at high temp but still durable enough to not come apart under normal circumstances instead of ultrasonic welding it together I think that would be the ideal situation. It doesn't even have to be easily repairible for a normal consumer, as long as a repair shop or confident DIYer or more importabtly even, make it possible for an ewaste recycler to pull the batteries out for disposal. The only thing they need to make replaceable is the battery.
Not to mention wireless earbuds, I don't think regular wired earbuds are that repairable too. While yes, it is disappointing to see how bad it is from iFixit's POV but it was just a video cracking the buds open without any explanation on what goes where or how things changed internally from the last AirPods Pro. Repairablility of the buds and a more informative attitude of video making, both still has a long way of same length to go.
In regular wired earbuds, there's really nothing to be repaired in there. It's just a very cheap plastic case, the driver and the cable, which actually is often replaceable in premium models, as it's the only part with high chance of breaking. If the driver breaks, there's really nothing left to repair, as they are such a simple product. A high tech product with a battery inside, should always be designed to be repaired. There's really no excuse for what apple does. My Sony WF-1000XM4 buds, use replaceable coin cell lithium batteries, and neither the case or the buds itself, are glued together and can be opened up relatively easily. It's not that it's particularly hard or impractical to make them repairable, it's that Apple doesn't want to
A battery is a consumable item. How are consumers going to replace it when (When, not if) it dies even nothing else goes wrong? also this is almost a computer, not comparable to the old wired buds. I have a wired pair 5 and a half years old still works good as new.
The Apple wireless device costs (give or take) 10 to 20 times more than the wired versions. Forty times (+) more for those 'dollar bin' buds. Apple pods last, only as long as the batteries last. A few years? Wired bud longevity could be in the decades. Your actual mileage may vary. Leaving out those still working Sony 'buds' from the 80's and 90's. My iPod Touch (2010) earphone is working fine. The iPhone 6 (2014) earphone is also fine. About $20 separately. The 2016 AirPod? Died after three years because of, batteries. Be nice to have a hearing aid and/or other swappable battery option. Looking at All of you wireless companies.
When talking about an true wireless earbuds worths like $10,I totally agree with you,there is no need to consider about repairable,now comes to Airpods Pro 2,it prices at $250,I suppose no one will accept(or consider it reasonable) that they have to discard the whole earbuds only bacause the battery is broken within 2 or 3 years.Wired earbuds has much longer lifecycle,besides,you don't have a "chance" to disassemble it beacuse they are hardly broken,and people replace it with a new or another model just for fun most of the time.
Apple is the richest company in the world!!! Their engineer should be top notch!!!! I'm sure they can fit a micrometer sized nuclear reactor into the buds, make it removable, and still retain their IP69 water resistant up to 420m for 20 years, and a battery life that lasts 69 years on a single charge!!! The buds themselves aren't even that small, they are larger than my mega sized PP!!! With all the space they got, how hard is it to fit the removable battery inside???!!! They are purposely making this really hard becuz they want money!!!! /s in case it isn't obvious enough
@@Iisakki3000 - And as a buyer I dont care if they are not. By the way show me how can i get them repaired officially by Sony? Show me the text on their website if they are meant to be repairable.
These small batteries aren't that hard to access, once you've cracked open the case. Apple's mechanical engineering team is talented enough to make all these batteries more easily swappable, they just aren't asked to do so.
$250 a pop, people expected these to be “repairable”.. video even said it, “crammed” in. What you expect, Lego setup for easy repair for a small earpiece! Smaller a product becomes, repairability is Zero
Yeah I think ifixit expects apple to put freaking screw driver holes in them despite them not having enough space and being one single piece of moulded plastic meaning it obviously that can't come apart and cleanly and be re assembled
@@deanosaur808 emm… Glue is there to hold components in place. Screws or other mechanisms take up much more space. That is what I am trying to say. Screws at this size?
Rather than pooping on Apple the whole time, I kinda wish this was a more thorough look at all of the components inside. Let’s at least appreciate all of the engineering behind this device
Exactly. Rambling on about 10 odd grams of pladtic earbuds and their so called environmental impact when a milk bottle top has more plastic and it doesnt last for a few years! And if you give them to apple at the end of their life, they will recycle them for free! This is wokeness gone too far and their screwdriver kit would have more plastic and so called environmental impact than these airpods will ever have.
@@trancenut81 milk carton tops don’t have rare earth metals and toxic batteries glued into them. I don’t know about where you live, but milk carton lids have had their thickness reduced over the years to reduce the plastic content. The colour dye content in them has also been drastically reduced to make them much easier to recycle. The industry changes to improve products. Apple needs to do the same.
@@trancenut81 I understand your point, but ifixit was primarily focusing on the battery and how it can’t easily be removed. But yes, in terms of plastic it’s insignificant compared to the plastics that are thrown away every day by everyone
@@trancenut81 So you’re saying that you believe it’s completely acceptable that these earbuds become unrepairable e-waste once the battery dies, which WILL happen?
At least Apple themselves have engineered robots that separate AirPods and their cases into individual components but that only does so much until everyone getting rid of old AirPods does so at an Apple Store or via mail-in recycling
How are they more environmentally damaging than plastic milk bottle cap? Unlike a plastic bottle cap, they can be used for years before they even end up in landfill. Mine are working fine at 3 years old.
Really? First of all because a milk bottle cap is made of one single material easy to recycle. Because they are a mix of circuit boards with electronic components, batteries, glues and plastic at a form factor so small and being so closed up, there's no way to dissasemble them with reasonable and economically viable effort. Also single Airpods are frequently lost quickly rendering them as dirty unusable trash so they also end up in regular trash bins apart from electronics recycling at least.
I gotta say, I don't like how you jumpcutted the case teardown into about 30 seconds. That was the most interesting part of the set for me; I really wanted to see how all of those components work together, as well as any new chips on the board....
Yes they didn't even talk about how apple managed to add both regular wireless charging and apple watch' special charging in a tiny space and ifbthe method they used can be implemented into other devices. They also didn't show the speakers on the bottom of the case
These kind of devices shouldn’t be repairable in my opinion. It’s impossible to fit so much tech with screws or anything that’s ‘repairable’. Phones are a complete different story.
Guys, you can call out the environmental issues without making the whole video a poo poo party. I miss the days of iFixit getting excited about the cool tech inside. He barely mentions the H2 chip among all the complaining.
Can you tell us how you sustainably recycled these “bought to be ripped apart” AirPods? And make sure you shout, it’s hard to hear you up there on your high horse….
The problem humans have is that they want everything about everything: good price, solid construction, practicality, good materials, good durability, good performance, resistant to drops and at the same time easy to take apart for "fixing". Good logic right there.
it is very possible to achieve, with todays technology and the money apple has. it just doesn't turn a profit. its not unreasonable to ask this from a company which is making earbuds which can cancel sound waves as they enter the bud before they enter your ear. its not that technically challenging
I came here for a teardown with analysis of the parts. Instead I got a lecture. The pragmatic truth is that it would be impossible to make something as small as the AirPods "repairable" without compromising the design or weather resistance. If Apple were to bulk up the design to satisfy environmentalists then their sales would decrease and then another group of people (potential purchasers) would declare their displeasure by not buying them.
No one in the history of human kind have ever asked for repairable ipods. When the battery finally dies you have two disposable options feed them to a dolphin, or like most people throw them in your junk draw.
I see airpods as one piece. How in the world would such an tiny thing be repairable? No place for screws or any things like that. Think of it as a processor which is one piece too. No one cries when a processor is broken and cant be repaired, it‘s just too complicated to build it repairable…
Processors don’t contain batteries that explode and cause fires, and as a whole processors are mostly made of one thing, silicon, which can be recycled repeatedly and still maintain its viability and structural integrity. People don’t cry about broken processors going to waste or destroying the world because they aren’t, so long as they are disposed of properly.
@@thousandsunny3103 so you just need to remember to give totally broken AirPods back to Apple, they said they'll take care of the disposal and recycling.
I sort of disagree. I don’t think AirPods (or any other wireless earbuds) were meant at all for repairability anyway. Besides, I just passed on my first gen’s to my brother (after I cleaned it, of course) and it will still be good for years to come.
@@muscy2637 The whole point is that they weren’t meant for reparability. They should have been made to be repaired, if even only battery replacement, which all air pods will need eventually since rechargeable batteries are only capable of lasting for a limited number of charge cycles that usually equates to two years, some only one. So I disagree that your 1st gens will last years. In fact you’re lucky that they still work as it is. The batteries will become dangerous for use soon if they aren’t already.
I wonder if dropping something like airpod case into a sous vide bag, sealing it and soaking it at 180f or whatever temp will soften the adhesive without damaging the plastics would be a reasonable solution at home? 3d printer bed works well for heating a surface but something like this it seems like just isn't really possible to remove at all.
Here’s the excuse for not increasing repair ability: In the US by law companies have to do what’s best for the shareholders And making unrepairable, super popular wireless earbuds that get replaced every 3-5 years is a great way to earn
You dont have a gun to your head. You can use wired headphones if you like. Unreliable and super popular, the irony (and common sense) is totally lost on you.
That's why you should not spend more than 50 EUR for basically a disposable hardware. I don''t see a problem spending 1100 on a phone that will last 5-6 year and then will be handed over to other user after battery replacement, but 300 for a pair of airbuds, that after 3-4 become unusable - no thanks.
The first review that gets a 0 out of 10 that I'm still going to buy when they go on sale Do any earbuds let you replace parts no.... Click bait.... You got me again...
I get that iFixit is a great company that is pushing for user repairability but sometime you simply have to understand that some tech isn't meant to be repairable, especially tiny tech. Not because the company who makes it is an asshole but the fact that in order to achieve the best of what it is you simplycan't ever open to repair them. And AirPods are one of those items, to no fault of their own.
Not 100% true, as making the battery replaceable wouldn't be too hard, and as it's probably the main thing that will need replacing. Everything else, yh fair game make them replaceable would be costly, hard and probably couldn't make the earbuds so small.
@@thinkspeed6787 Have you seem the video and see where the battery is located at? There is literally no room, not a pocket of air in that thing. I will argue that the AirPods are just not meant to be open, and that is totally fine.
@@thinkspeed6787 the problem is that Air pods are designed to be water resistant. In order to be water resistant you have to have water tight seals on the earbud, which require glue and very tight tolerances in design. This makes repair impossible without destroying the plastic. I'm not sure about the case and if it's designed to be water resistant. I'm sure they could make that a little more repairable.
You can always repurpose the circuitry inside the buds, fit a standard 18650 or pouch cell and build your own wireless headphones or bluetooth speakers, so not a total waste when the battery dies. But of course they wont be a pair of AirPods after that...
with the emphasis on these earbuds being a portable, convenient piece of your everyday life. i dont not see why they could be any big as repairable as a phone for example they need a bunch of technology packed into a tiny tiny case, and for all of this to be durable as they will most likely live, in ur pockets, be dropped numerous times and will have abuse thrown at it. its not something as easy as "make it more repairable" because they would have to sacrifice on everything their customers already love about the product
So I still don’t know whats that one extra hole at the bottom left of the case is after watching nearly every AirPods Pro 2 videos… Please explain what the components are beside ranting on the repairability of these things
So if the person doing the repair is skilled enough they can replace the battery in these things, I’ve seen some shop here in Thailand specializing in replacing AirPods battery, so it’s not impossible it’s possible you just have to be skilled enough to do it You want it to be recycled properly, sent it to apple if you have other brand see if they have a recycling program if they have such program send it to them
iFixit.. your quality of videos has really plummeted. I mean, there are videos online of people repairing these airpods without completely destroying them. do better.
I searched this up because my brother broke some AirPods that I found and they came apart. I put them back together, but the top part won’t come back on and my mom said she will come home and fix it
I expected more from ifixit than banging on about the environment while happily destroying new electronics. Thought this was some low budget new channel before I checked.
Apple could easily make the battery removable from the stem and could even make the case battery removable. But they know that the number one reason people buy new air pods is because of battery degradation.
It's really hard to cram that battery into the stem without sacrificing capacity, and even then, battery in the stem is still not really easily removable. TWS are disposable by nature, the best thing to do is just buy regular wired iem
@Summer1999 That's bullshit! There's even a gap between the two internal batteries, and it's the glue smothered all over the connectors which creates problems.
@@onengkusumah2905 Bruh. Tell ma any other way to asses how repairable they are than disassemble them? This is the best way to show people how irrepairable they are, if they were just talking and not showing anything, no one would listen. This video is meant to make people think twice before buying something that becomes trash in a couple years. With that mission in mind, it's well worth it to destroy one pair to make a point. There's maybe 10 content creators that would do this but tens of millions of people who buy these.
Which ones are the most repair friendly buds out there, also having a decent performance for the price. I want something that holds it value for a long time. Right now i am using airpods pro copy for $12 in China, this one seems an use and throw product for the price it comes and having excellent sound performance. Who buys Apple when c competition nailing its coffin.
Is the significant amount of increase in material waste during the manufacturing process for every single product, justified for the 10-20% of product that will be repaired? We are taking about having 20-30% more waste during manufacturing process for each and every device, just so that a few of them can be repaired
@@Simon-bd6jl Rambling on about 10 odd grams of pladtic earbuds and their so called environmental impact when a milk bottle top has more plastic and it doesnt last for a few years! And if you give them to apple at the end of their life, they will recycle them for free! This is wokeness gone too far and their screwdriver kit would have more plastic and so called environmental impact than these airpods will ever have.
@@Simon-bd6jl think of the iPhone 14. Before it only need four small piece of aluminum to be machined, then be injection molded to become one chassis. this year’s sandwich design probably means that Apple cannot just machine small pieces of parts, instead they have to machine out of much larger piece of aluminum. That’s an conservative estimate of 20-30% more metal scrap compare to previous phones
Hard to argue with woke's. They are worried about 10 grams of plastic and metal, which by the way will be recycled for free by Apple, across a period of few years!
Finally jumped on the AirPods bandwagon and they are fantastic earphones. The noise cancellation is top notch for earphones and the spatial audio on iOS 16 is amazing. Glad to have upgraded from my 4 year old Sony WH1000XM2s
Honestly, I look at all that we do. These AirPods are a tiny fragment of it. I gave up driving a car? Can I have AirPods please? If I eat less meat, can I have AirPods? Are Tesla’s fully recyclable? Because they are heralded as being “green”? Point in case, there’s a large grey area in this discussion. AirPods with a replaceable battery? Count me in.
“Can it mute the guilt of wearing unrepairable e-waste”??? Your writers are out of control. Power to you guys and your cause but literally no one who buys AirPods will ever feel said guilt
Wearing them whilst watching the vid. Can definitely agree 👍👍👍
99% of consumers don’t care about e-waste and it’s not our responsibility either. Big corporations should always be held accountable for big issues.
I’m not wasting my life saddled with guilt over my “carbon footprint” and all that BS.
@@LoFi3 honestly!
Sorry dude but I feel differently. Concerns about repairability would show that they are being more conscious and considerate, since at Apple's scale they literally sell stuff by the million, it cannot be said to be a small deal.
i care a little bit but at the end of the day there’s not much i can do other than keep them around as long as i possibly can
Why not also make a teardown of some earbuds, that actually are designed to be repairable? Would be great to also show people an example of how it should be done. Sony WF-1000XM4 for example, isn't glued together and even has coin cell batteries that can be replaced relatively easily.
If only I can find those batteries on Amazon, or ebay. I have the Sony wf-1000xm4
sony wf-1000-xm3 are easily repairable
@@QH96 this is true. I've taken apart my right Sony wf-1000xm3 as it wasn't charging. I couldn't find the replacement battery sadly
@@corey7219 aliexpress has anything you want
Sony earbuds are also poorly made unreliable junk. I haven’t touched Sony earbuds for 10 years because every pair I bought died within three months. Sometimes a product is poorly made rather than being “easily repairable.”
I'm still hoping for an iFixit collabo with some makers to see "replacement shells" made, so that the guts of the iBuds can be transferred into a case that allows easier service. iFixit has been at this long enough, that more sophisticated teardown methods might be employed... cnc, for example. With the fancy lithography, you can see where the battery is, so that "ooh scary" part shouldn't really have been necessary, except as a public service...
It is called *AirPods Pro 2nd Generation* 😂 not ibuds lmao
@@flamingkillermc2806 reminds me of when people still call the Apple Watch an iWatch
No
The same guy who put USB-C on the iPhone did that for airpods!
Working on it :)
ifixit teardowns are not as detailed as before
There is no need to, if you go to their website, you have a very detailed guide to open them
They are just being woke so potential woke investors can go through their videos and give them money
@@ozordiprince9405 woke? elaborate please
@@ozordiprince9405what??? like literally who asked
Guess I’m going to have to look elsewhere for an actual analysis of the changes…thanks for the PSA though
Apple advertises that they're going environmentally friendly and they are getting it in some areas, but how is their newest pair in the lineup even worse than the last. So much for being eco friendly!
They have ofc been making progress, but again this is their NEWEST PAIR in the LINEUP. HOW?
I like how they don't include a charger to help with waste but also make 4+ models of new phones every year
@@sorrows_touch you know that 4 new models a year isn’t much at all right?
@@sorrows_touch Samsung I swear makes 200 per year, apple only 5
@@sorrows_touch what about the fact that they dont repair their devices in most markets outside of the us. And with their software locks if your iphone breaks, apple just says chuck it in the ocean 🙄. Some serious environment saving.
@@iustin1658 I didn't say that was right either, I think Samsung making so many models per year is way worse than what Apples doing but this video was about Apple
shenzhen repair shops have been able to replacing airpods batteries without leaving a mark for some time, and yet ifxit still don't know how to tear down airpods without a vibroknife
Exactly. They cried about Apple Watch ultra being too hard to repair and broke the screen during tear down, while I’ve seen loads of easy tear downs from Chinese repairers😂
Yes. I can't remember but I watched a RUclips video of a tech repair channel that has custom repair equipment for airpods. The dude changed the batter in both the case and the buds in like 7 minutes
So true!
I opened the casing on these in just minutes by squeezing the casing, then sliding my 10mm filling knife in the gap!
Obviously I still damaged the PCB because the cable connectos are bonded in 🙄
Thankfully I found it in the streets and only wanted the cells for a project 🥳
Airpods are around 40gr with case. Your car radio has 100x more e-waste. You could get new airpods every year of your life and not accumulate enough e-waste for 1 tv, or 1 laptop, or 1 toaster. Not to mention a fridge, an oven or a stereo system.
To make a case for Apple.
Also repair what, exactly? The airpod batteries constitute more than half of the ewaste of the product.
From an engineering perspective I don't see how repairable earbuds make sense, might be wrong.
@@AJ-wf1vh lmao you're saying a repairable 300€ premium product doesn't make sense, but a disposable one does. You can eather waste money or get repairable ones like sony wf-1000xm4 where you spend like 20€ for new batteries instead of 300€ when the batteries go bad.
@@Iisakki3000 just say your problem is being Apple's paypig
not the environment
I don't use Apple products either
@@Iisakki3000 You can get them replaced for Apple for much less. And you wouldnt need to replace the case.
Btw, I've been using 2 pairs of chinesium 20$ earbuds daily for 3 years that are not repairable
The battery on both of them is still solid
I don't even have an excuse to replace them
I have no doubts that if apple engineered theirs correctly, they will last around 5 years until the battery goes bad. If you keep them for that long, they'll probably disintegrate before that point
It's nice that the sonys are repairable, but they're also bigger
iFixit always manages to make the most worthless teardown video ever. I just wasted three precious minutes watching this, which can’t be good for the environment.
Spoken like someone who works for Apple. lol
@@hoonetic haha, well, I posted that, not because I think he isn’t right, but I got tired of the constant shitting on Apple narrative the entire video. Like come on, a comment or two is fine, but it gets old
@@jereburkholder5137 they need calling out. They are the no.1 selling wireless earbuds in the world. Nearly all of it will end up in landfill in a few years, simply because you can’t replace a battery. Apple can do better and iFixit do praise them when they get things right (iPhone 14)
I think some of their other presenters are less insufferable
Wasting one product which is calling out a product being unrepairable e waste problem is way better than leaving how the Apple and most companies making wireless earbuds that are disposable products in just few years.
These kind of products will he a nightmare in the near future. Even the drivers works fine, but the batteries won't. The short lifespan of these kind of products will produce more waste than a smartphone that least can last longer if you don't care about getting latest and the greatest.
Im not an professional repairer but i took these apart without destroying the case so i dont even know how you guys did a job like this
Apple no longer cares about what anyone thinks, as long as millons of apple fanboys and fangirls continue to run out and buy the latest apple gadget as soon as it's released.
Getting into these isn't as destructive as you guys make it. it's difficult, but you can replace the batteries in these without destroying them. That being said the Sony WF1000XM4s and LinkBuds S are much much easier to get into and don't require soldering
Even then, good luck finding the replacement battery and not having your buds become software locked by apple because of mismatched hardware.
I think it might've been a little over played in the video, but their point on the environment still stands. What normal average person would be able to confidently open a pair of airpods to change the battery? The average person would take them to Apple would've upsold them on getting Apple Care and they would've gotten a new pair chunking the old one.
In my experience when my AirPods pros microphone was damaged, Apple had me "send them in for repair" and then it was in a "awaiting repair" queue for weeks. Eventually the repair tracking disappeared and got my "repaired" airpods back. It was a new pair.
Another thing, how is Apple going to intergrade these into their recycling program? I really really doubt there is a magic machine they have that disassembles this in a cost effective way that Apple would be okay with.
If Apple were upfront about it I wouldn't care. But given my experience and the fact Apple has all of this "we love the environment" stuff, it really shows the true values behind the company. It is a shame that we as consumers can be lied to and Apple will likely never be held accountable for their actions in misleading consumers that their products are some how more environmentally friendly than other electronics, when they all end up in the same place slowly polluting our world.
I bet when you recycle them at Apple they have tools to take them apart and reuse parts
@@W4ZEL they don't do that with AirPods
@@astaldo But no one has been able to confirm it since no one actually is able to replace them irl.
I don't like the last couple of teardown made by iFixit, they don't have the same vibe in ly opinion and now it's just ranting and ranting without explaining much compared to before
Yes we get it, they're terrible to repair.
But I'd love to get some more explanation to the parts. I'm looking at the single hole next to the port and speaker at the bottom of the charging case. What's that?
It would be cool to be able to repair them but the question is how? Didn't fairphone make ones and they still aren't repairable? I think it's not really easy to do
I know, right?
Everyone argues that they should be repairable but considering the size, considering the need for them to be durable to a point..
It would take a lot of effort, and time to try to repair small earbuds without breaking them, no-one would want to repair them considering how small they are, how hard it is to complete. If you had them long enough to worry about the battery, theres going to be a huge amount of ear wax, along with dirt etc.
It would cost bare minimum $100 to do it, even if the battery was free. You could fairly easily get a new pair of them for that price.
Small electronics are difficult to repair quickly without breaking them
Not to mention by the time theyre dead, new versions will most likely be out
@@meowie64 What?? Check out Sony wf-1000xm4. Definitely repairable.
and... that is why wired is better.
@@xyetian3465 ouchies.
@@Iisakki3000 he is right. when you bought airpods back in 2019, why wouldnt you now just get gen3s? theyre much better, repairing old ones would be a waste of time and money. phones are a different story, you can keep them for up to 6 years with apples updates. earbuds are not designed to be kept this long. especially the tiny batteries.
The whole “environmental disaster” seems super overdone. This is like 30 ccs you throw away every 3+ years or so. Do people not realize how much is thrown away every day?
Fr this is just a drop in the bucket
@@toasterbread75 A pretty big drop in the bucker when tens of millions of these become trash in just 2-3 years. This also requires way way way more energy and precious metals etc to be made than say a plastic bag.
Also this whole attitude of "this means absolutely nothing because it single handedly doesn't fix every environmental issue ever" is just so trash.
@@Iisakki3000 so don’t buy it brother
@@toasterbread75 Not even a drop in the bucket. The airpods themselves weigh less than the milk bottle top and I get milk almost everyday
I feel like the only real way to make the buds easily repairable would be to take the bottom and put a screw in that, attach the driver and wireless chip (whatever it becomes) with a magnet connector and have the rest of the bus slide out from the bottom iPod-mini style.
I’ll say this, while it’s painful to know these are going to ewaste it’s hard to make something as small as a literal headphone jack repairable.
If they could use an adhesive for the seam where the two halves connect that could be seperated at high temp but still durable enough to not come apart under normal circumstances instead of ultrasonic welding it together I think that would be the ideal situation. It doesn't even have to be easily repairible for a normal consumer, as long as a repair shop or confident DIYer or more importabtly even, make it possible for an ewaste recycler to pull the batteries out for disposal. The only thing they need to make replaceable is the battery.
I mean, I have ideas about how this could be repairable and even modular, but I’d bankrupt Apple in a week chasing my fever dream of RepAirPods.
Not to mention wireless earbuds, I don't think regular wired earbuds are that repairable too. While yes, it is disappointing to see how bad it is from iFixit's POV but it was just a video cracking the buds open without any explanation on what goes where or how things changed internally from the last AirPods Pro. Repairablility of the buds and a more informative attitude of video making, both still has a long way of same length to go.
You can recable earbuds if the cable is broken, and a lot of them have removable cable anyway.
In regular wired earbuds, there's really nothing to be repaired in there. It's just a very cheap plastic case, the driver and the cable, which actually is often replaceable in premium models, as it's the only part with high chance of breaking. If the driver breaks, there's really nothing left to repair, as they are such a simple product.
A high tech product with a battery inside, should always be designed to be repaired. There's really no excuse for what apple does. My Sony WF-1000XM4 buds, use replaceable coin cell lithium batteries, and neither the case or the buds itself, are glued together and can be opened up relatively easily. It's not that it's particularly hard or impractical to make them repairable, it's that Apple doesn't want to
A battery is a consumable item. How are consumers going to replace it when (When, not if) it dies even nothing else goes wrong? also this is almost a computer, not comparable to the old wired buds. I have a wired pair 5 and a half years old still works good as new.
The Apple wireless device costs (give or take) 10 to 20 times more than the wired versions. Forty times (+) more for those 'dollar bin' buds.
Apple pods last, only as long as the batteries last. A few years? Wired bud longevity could be in the decades.
Your actual mileage may vary. Leaving out those still working Sony 'buds' from the 80's and 90's.
My iPod Touch (2010) earphone is working fine. The iPhone 6 (2014) earphone is also fine. About $20 separately.
The 2016 AirPod? Died after three years because of, batteries.
Be nice to have a hearing aid and/or other swappable battery option. Looking at All of you wireless companies.
When talking about an true wireless earbuds worths like $10,I totally agree with you,there is no need to consider about repairable,now comes to Airpods Pro 2,it prices at $250,I suppose no one will accept(or consider it reasonable) that they have to discard the whole earbuds only bacause the battery is broken within 2 or 3 years.Wired earbuds has much longer lifecycle,besides,you don't have a "chance" to disassemble it beacuse they are hardly broken,and people replace it with a new or another model just for fun most of the time.
Someone, please explain to me how you can make AirPods repairable and literally not compromise on anything
A set of "repairable" wireless earbuds wouldn't be nearly as compact. Smaller devices just aren't going to be repairable and that's okay.
Apple is the richest company in the world!!! Their engineer should be top notch!!!! I'm sure they can fit a micrometer sized nuclear reactor into the buds, make it removable, and still retain their IP69 water resistant up to 420m for 20 years, and a battery life that lasts 69 years on a single charge!!! The buds themselves aren't even that small, they are larger than my mega sized PP!!! With all the space they got, how hard is it to fit the removable battery inside???!!! They are purposely making this really hard becuz they want money!!!!
/s in case it isn't obvious enough
@@Summer-xu8qu I'm sure Apple can make repairable ones like sony also does.
@@Iisakki3000 - And as a buyer I dont care if they are not. By the way show me how can i get them repaired officially by Sony? Show me the text on their website if they are meant to be repairable.
@@trancenut81 If you have more money than brains I can't really stop you.
No sure why people think AirPods would be fixable… like they’ve been out for years we should all know this
there should be a law that requires companies to make all electronics with swappable batteries
Then there wouldn't be any airpods except the max.
These small batteries aren't that hard to access, once you've cracked open the case. Apple's mechanical engineering team is talented enough to make all these batteries more easily swappable, they just aren't asked to do so.
@@Simon-bd6jl or theyre asked to specifically make them hard to do so
$250 a pop, people expected these to be “repairable”.. video even said it, “crammed” in. What you expect, Lego setup for easy repair for a small earpiece! Smaller a product becomes, repairability is Zero
It is tiny, even more stuff jammed inside this time. It is hard to beat physics. Of course larger ones are easier to repair.
Yeah I think ifixit expects apple to put freaking screw driver holes in them despite them not having enough space and being one single piece of moulded plastic meaning it obviously that can't come apart and cleanly and be re assembled
It's only the glue stopping these from being easily repairable!
The casing is the easy part, but they went ott lol
@@deanosaur808 emm… Glue is there to hold components in place. Screws or other mechanisms take up much more space. That is what I am trying to say. Screws at this size?
Rather than pooping on Apple the whole time, I kinda wish this was a more thorough look at all of the components inside. Let’s at least appreciate all of the engineering behind this device
Watch iPhone 14 vid.
Exactly. Rambling on about 10 odd grams of pladtic earbuds and their so called environmental impact when a milk bottle top has more plastic and it doesnt last for a few years! And if you give them to apple at the end of their life, they will recycle them for free! This is wokeness gone too far and their screwdriver kit would have more plastic and so called environmental impact than these airpods will ever have.
@@trancenut81 milk carton tops don’t have rare earth metals and toxic batteries glued into them. I don’t know about where you live, but milk carton lids have had their thickness reduced over the years to reduce the plastic content. The colour dye content in them has also been drastically reduced to make them much easier to recycle. The industry changes to improve products. Apple needs to do the same.
@@trancenut81 I understand your point, but ifixit was primarily focusing on the battery and how it can’t easily be removed. But yes, in terms of plastic it’s insignificant compared to the plastics that are thrown away every day by everyone
@@trancenut81 So you’re saying that you believe it’s completely acceptable that these earbuds become unrepairable e-waste once the battery dies, which WILL happen?
At least Apple themselves have engineered robots that separate AirPods and their cases into individual components but that only does so much until everyone getting rid of old AirPods does so at an Apple Store or via mail-in recycling
What a poor miserable teardown, 3min??? Didn't even show the internals, nothing
Someone fire this guy and get someone with a technical background this guy literally destroys every tech he gets his hands on
How are they more environmentally damaging than plastic milk bottle cap? Unlike a plastic bottle cap, they can be used for years before they even end up in landfill. Mine are working fine at 3 years old.
Really? First of all because a milk bottle cap is made of one single material easy to recycle. Because they are a mix of circuit boards with electronic components, batteries, glues and plastic at a form factor so small and being so closed up, there's no way to dissasemble them with reasonable and economically viable effort. Also single Airpods are frequently lost quickly rendering them as dirty unusable trash so they also end up in regular trash bins apart from electronics recycling at least.
Recycling is a thing. Unlike airpods, plastic bottle caps are easy to recycle.
I gotta say, I don't like how you jumpcutted the case teardown into about 30 seconds. That was the most interesting part of the set for me; I really wanted to see how all of those components work together, as well as any new chips on the board....
Yes they didn't even talk about how apple managed to add both regular wireless charging and apple watch' special charging in a tiny space and ifbthe method they used can be implemented into other devices. They also didn't show the speakers on the bottom of the case
There should be a law that all devices should have a reparability score of 8/10 or higher….
These kind of devices shouldn’t be repairable in my opinion. It’s impossible to fit so much tech with screws or anything that’s ‘repairable’. Phones are a complete different story.
Sorry but you're wrong. Check out Sony wf-1000xm4, those are repairable.
@@Iisakki3000 and also significantly larger,
You are SO WRONG its sad.
MY 👏 AIRPODS 👏 ARE 👏 FAKE 👏
Same, almost a year using them.
I had many signals to think they were fake but didn’t want to think about it until now
They talk so much about saving the environment, and then they make a practically un recyclable product.
Love the video, just got mine today!
complaining about e-waste but making e-waste himself for the sake of content, smh
What's he supposed to do?
You can't know how good safety is on a car without crashing it.
@@thinkspeed6787 - This isnt a car numbnut and no one asked for repairable airpods except woke's.
@@thinkspeed6787 just don't crash it
Guys, you can call out the environmental issues without making the whole video a poo poo party. I miss the days of iFixit getting excited about the cool tech inside. He barely mentions the H2 chip among all the complaining.
Ifixit is not here to praise apple for their " revolutionary chip". They are here to fix/repair gadgets.
It cracks me up how many people still believe Apple is all about saving the environment. 😂
So what ear buds are repairable? Other than replacing the battery in the Sony WF-1000XMA.
Fairbuds from Fairphone.
Can you tell us how you sustainably recycled these “bought to be ripped apart” AirPods? And make sure you shout, it’s hard to hear you up there on your high horse….
The problem humans have is that they want everything about everything: good price, solid construction, practicality, good materials, good durability, good performance, resistant to drops and at the same time easy to take apart for "fixing". Good logic right there.
it is very possible to achieve, with todays technology and the money apple has. it just doesn't turn a profit. its not unreasonable to ask this from a company which is making earbuds which can cancel sound waves as they enter the bud before they enter your ear. its not that technically challenging
"guilt from wearing unrepairable ewaste"
Me: NOPE, sry karen.
Seriously. I going to avoid everything ifixit. Duckin ball washing bastards
Bro is complaining about e-waste while Making e-waste. 😂
I came here for a teardown with analysis of the parts. Instead I got a lecture.
The pragmatic truth is that it would be impossible to make something as small as the AirPods "repairable" without compromising the design or weather resistance. If Apple were to bulk up the design to satisfy environmentalists then their sales would decrease and then another group of people (potential purchasers) would declare their displeasure by not buying them.
In all honesty I am going to lose them before they break
Another reason to not buy this trash
No one in the history of human kind have ever asked for repairable ipods. When the battery finally dies you have two disposable options feed them to a dolphin, or like most people throw them in your junk draw.
No one asked them to remove the headphones jack eather, yet they did it. Now they can sell you much more expensive earphones over and over again.
I love those 3D x-rays.
I see airpods as one piece. How in the world would such an tiny thing be repairable? No place for screws or any things like that. Think of it as a processor which is one piece too. No one cries when a processor is broken and cant be repaired, it‘s just too complicated to build it repairable…
I don’t know anyone that repair their in ear earphones. There are so many cheap pretty much single use earphones out there.
Processors don’t contain batteries that explode and cause fires, and as a whole processors are mostly made of one thing, silicon, which can be recycled repeatedly and still maintain its viability and structural integrity. People don’t cry about broken processors going to waste or destroying the world because they aren’t, so long as they are disposed of properly.
@@thousandsunny3103 so you just need to remember to give totally broken AirPods back to Apple, they said they'll take care of the disposal and recycling.
I sort of disagree. I don’t think AirPods (or any other wireless earbuds) were meant at all for repairability anyway. Besides, I just passed on my first gen’s to my brother (after I cleaned it, of course) and it will still be good for years to come.
@@muscy2637 The whole point is that they weren’t meant for reparability. They should have been made to be repaired, if even only battery replacement, which all air pods will need eventually since rechargeable batteries are only capable of lasting for a limited number of charge cycles that usually equates to two years, some only one. So I disagree that your 1st gens will last years. In fact you’re lucky that they still work as it is. The batteries will become dangerous for use soon if they aren’t already.
Thanks for showing how good the quality is, really glad they don’t break easy and it took effort to get in
That has absolutely nothing to do with quality.
@@Iisakki3000 of course it does. If it falls apart by looking at it that's bad.
My AirPods fell hundreds of times and it did nothing to them.
I wonder if dropping something like airpod case into a sous vide bag, sealing it and soaking it at 180f or whatever temp will soften the adhesive without damaging the plastics would be a reasonable solution at home?
3d printer bed works well for heating a surface but something like this it seems like just isn't really possible to remove at all.
Then you'd have a perfectly cooked medium-rare Airpods Pro 2 case...enjoy!
@@The_Crazy_Monkey75 180f is for sure well done lol
Here’s the excuse for not increasing repair ability:
In the US by law companies have to do what’s best for the shareholders
And making unrepairable, super popular wireless earbuds that get replaced every 3-5 years is a great way to earn
You dont have a gun to your head. You can use wired headphones if you like. Unreliable and super popular, the irony (and common sense) is totally lost on you.
Did i just witness "Definition of Over-Engineering"?
Will you do and AirPods Max tear down with a repairability score?
So i've seen a few videos of people repairing the buds - it's not easy, but doable for sure
Good thing you just ruined perfectly good airpods to add to e-waste! xD
That's why you should not spend more than 50 EUR for basically a disposable hardware. I don''t see a problem spending 1100 on a phone that will last 5-6 year and then will be handed over to other user after battery replacement, but 300 for a pair of airbuds, that after 3-4 become unusable - no thanks.
This is the reason I hate Apple products with a burning passion.
The first review that gets a 0 out of 10 that I'm still going to buy when they go on sale
Do any earbuds let you replace parts no....
Click bait....
You got me again...
Sony earbuds are repairable, at least my wf-1000xm4 are. If Sony can do it so can apple.
Yes, there are earbuds with replaceable parts.
apple: we do support repair! we care of environment! michael myers is a good boy!
Glad you’re addressing it, shame on apple
Repair, Reuse, Recycle in that order.
Are some other earbuds better? Would be interesting to see a good example (if such a thing exists)
Sony WF-1000XM4's have a replaceable battery for the buds, not sure about the case.
Good earbuds are no earbuds but cabled earphones.
oops, you had an extra space in "00: 40 Rare Earth Magnets" in the description, so the number cant be clocked
I get that iFixit is a great company that is pushing for user repairability but sometime you simply have to understand that some tech isn't meant to be repairable, especially tiny tech. Not because the company who makes it is an asshole but the fact that in order to achieve the best of what it is you simplycan't ever open to repair them. And AirPods are one of those items, to no fault of their own.
Not 100% true, as making the battery replaceable wouldn't be too hard, and as it's probably the main thing that will need replacing.
Everything else, yh fair game make them replaceable would be costly, hard and probably couldn't make the earbuds so small.
@@thinkspeed6787 Have you seem the video and see where the battery is located at? There is literally no room, not a pocket of air in that thing. I will argue that the AirPods are just not meant to be open, and that is totally fine.
@@thinkspeed6787 the problem is that Air pods are designed to be water resistant. In order to be water resistant you have to have water tight seals on the earbud, which require glue and very tight tolerances in design. This makes repair impossible without destroying the plastic.
I'm not sure about the case and if it's designed to be water resistant. I'm sure they could make that a little more repairable.
@@aroberts3213 I would say the case doesn't need to be as repairable as it'll well out last the earbuds themselves.
@@thinkspeed6787 yeah true. in y experience the case is pretty durable.
You can always repurpose the circuitry inside the buds, fit a standard 18650 or pouch cell and build your own wireless headphones or bluetooth speakers, so not a total waste when the battery dies. But of course they wont be a pair of AirPods after that...
Are there any earbuds that you can replace the battery relatively easily?
The subtitles being different to what was being said really threw me off at a few moments there.
"But can it mute the guilt of wearing unrepairable e-waste?"
Very nicely described - zero love given back. 👌
What’s the process after you recycle AirPods through Apple themselves?
Literally just drop them off at Apple store.
Ask Tim, he must know.
This entire video just seemed like an excuse for iFixit to Apple bash.
Apple keeps giving me reasons to stick with my Lighting EarPods.
A beautiful piece of engineering, head to head with its software
I mean your compressing battery, microphone, receiver, H1 chip, etc in a small compact space. Repairability is always the sacrifice.
I've opened, disassembled and closed an AirPods Pro case without destroying it ... just some light visual damage, but that's it.
with the emphasis on these earbuds being a portable, convenient piece of your everyday life. i dont not see why they could be any big as repairable as a phone for example
they need a bunch of technology packed into a tiny tiny case, and for all of this to be durable as they will most likely live, in ur pockets, be dropped numerous times and will have abuse thrown at it. its not something as easy as "make it more repairable" because they would have to sacrifice on everything their customers already love about the product
So I still don’t know whats that one extra hole at the bottom left of the case is after watching nearly every AirPods Pro 2 videos…
Please explain what the components are beside ranting on the repairability of these things
So if the person doing the repair is skilled enough they can replace the battery in these things, I’ve seen some shop here in Thailand specializing in replacing AirPods battery, so it’s not impossible it’s possible you just have to be skilled enough to do it
You want it to be recycled properly, sent it to apple if you have other brand see if they have a recycling program if they have such program send it to them
now teardown for bose qc 2 let's see what's the secret of best anc in that earbuds
My AirPods Pro Gen 1 are 5 months old and gone for a replacement.Good to see the tear down and the warnings,” don’t try this at home or anywhere”.
iFixit.. your quality of videos has really plummeted.
I mean, there are videos online of people repairing these airpods without completely destroying them.
do better.
can you give me a link to one of those videos? I'm really interested in how they open them up destruction free
2:13 so is the single hole on the bottom just a vent for the speaker?
It’s a mic
Bro what is your accent😂
Did you grow up in Ireland and move to the US or the otherway around
I searched this up because my brother broke some AirPods that I found and they came apart. I put them back together, but the top part won’t come back on and my mom said she will come home and fix it
Been saying "F**k Apple since 1993".
We should mail broken AirPods to apple en masse as a campaign
What is the tool you’re using at 1:56? Is that like a heated exacto blade? I’ve never seen one and I have a need!
this is why i keep all
my e-waste until we have better solutions
I expected more from ifixit than banging on about the environment while happily destroying new electronics. Thought this was some low budget new channel before I checked.
Seeing blowtorch in the background does not give me much hope for repairability.
lumafield's ct scan is dope.
You seriously need to stop bashing and complaining about companies and just tell us about the products and their changes! Focus please
Ma’am this is a repair channel
Apple could easily make the battery removable from the stem and could even make the case battery removable. But they know that the number one reason people buy new air pods is because of battery degradation.
It's really hard to cram that battery into the stem without sacrificing capacity, and even then, battery in the stem is still not really easily removable. TWS are disposable by nature, the best thing to do is just buy regular wired iem
@@Summer-xu8qu they could make the whole stem removable if they wanted to, or come up with another repairable design.
@Summer1999
That's bullshit! There's even a gap between the two internal batteries, and it's the glue smothered all over the connectors which creates problems.
I wish all the upcoming Apple products be repairable enough! Not only apple but all brands other people use. Planet must be the priority
he's complaining about e-waste but making e-waste himself for the sake of content, smh
@@onengkusumah2905 hah fact
@@onengkusumah2905 Bruh. Tell ma any other way to asses how repairable they are than disassemble them? This is the best way to show people how irrepairable they are, if they were just talking and not showing anything, no one would listen. This video is meant to make people think twice before buying something that becomes trash in a couple years. With that mission in mind, it's well worth it to destroy one pair to make a point. There's maybe 10 content creators that would do this but tens of millions of people who buy these.
Which ones are the most repair friendly buds out there, also having a decent performance for the price. I want something that holds it value for a long time. Right now i am using airpods pro copy for $12 in China, this one seems an use and throw product for the price it comes and having excellent sound performance. Who buys Apple when c competition nailing its coffin.
You forgot to teardown the charging case's cap
That accent is so weird I don’t know if it’s English or American
Is the significant amount of increase in material waste during the manufacturing process for every single product, justified for the 10-20% of product that will be repaired? We are taking about having 20-30% more waste during manufacturing process for each and every device, just so that a few of them can be repaired
Is the amount of extra raw material energy required worth it?
Are you just making up numbers and asking a question with them as the basis for a meaningful answer?
@@Simon-bd6jl Rambling on about 10 odd grams of pladtic earbuds and their so called environmental impact when a milk bottle top has more plastic and it doesnt last for a few years! And if you give them to apple at the end of their life, they will recycle them for free! This is wokeness gone too far and their screwdriver kit would have more plastic and so called environmental impact than these airpods will ever have.
@@Simon-bd6jl think of the iPhone 14. Before it only need four small piece of aluminum to be machined, then be injection molded to become one chassis. this year’s sandwich design probably means that Apple cannot just machine small pieces of parts, instead they have to machine out of much larger piece of aluminum. That’s an conservative estimate of 20-30% more metal scrap compare to previous phones
Hard to argue with woke's. They are worried about 10 grams of plastic and metal, which by the way will be recycled for free by Apple, across a period of few years!
Finally jumped on the AirPods bandwagon and they are fantastic earphones. The noise cancellation is top notch for earphones and the spatial audio on iOS 16 is amazing. Glad to have upgraded from my 4 year old Sony WH1000XM2s
Honestly, I look at all that we do. These AirPods are a tiny fragment of it. I gave up driving a car? Can I have AirPods please? If I eat less meat, can I have AirPods?
Are Tesla’s fully recyclable? Because they are heralded as being “green”? Point in case, there’s a large grey area in this discussion.
AirPods with a replaceable battery? Count me in.