- Do an in warranty battery replacement (within 1 year)
- Pay a repair shop or apple for a new battery.
- Apple runs one of the most comprehensive recycling and trade-in programs out there. Every store offers both trade-in value for devices that have it and free recycling for those that don't.
Especially because airpod competitors with replaceable batteries will be singificantly heavier, significantly less waterproof and may be more costly for similar functionality.
Non replaceable batteries, non upgradeable memory etc is all a tradeoff. Checkout the mac mini with M1 and soldered on memory, but memory performance seems amazing.
If you want to talk put a headphone in the outer ear, and you can still talk softly to each other. Headphones are super immersive sounding. And if you have the pros, you set them to transparency mode. You can still talk, but kids won't hear the movie.
I just got an apple TV and I laughed when I saw that.
Even better, your phone can act as the remote, your airpods can paid (I've heard) etc.
Other than iphone I'm very late to apple's world, but as I get older, I just love that stuff works and I don't feel like I'm getting scammed every second.
Who do you trust (brand wise) to get it right. Does someone get it right? I'm sure, but my guess is if you did brand survey's, people would KNOW that apple gets it pretty right, and most players don't.
That's partly because apple ignore HN. I need a modulare phone that I can ugprade the ram on. Apple is ignoring you, they seal their phones up with epoxy so they are pretty darn waterproof. But for normal users, this is a positive.
They call out fake third party batteries. OH NO says HN. For normal users, a plus again.
They offer BY FAR the longest and most reliable operating system support. First gen ipad pro's STILL have value! My old android tablet has been unsupported since the DAY I bought it.
Or built in junkware and adware. If I buy a samsung TV can I be pretty sure it won't datamine my viewing habits? Even top competitors turn out to be basically scammers. Will you guarantee me that samsung won't jam ads onto my TV after I buy it?
"Towards the end of 2019, owners have started to voice their dissatisfaction with larger, increasingly obtrusive, and unrelated ads showing up on their Samsung TVs. These include ads for canned beans or discount supermarkets" - this is on $2,500+ frame art TV's etc.
It turns out, despite your claims, these other very large companies selling very expensive items are scamming folks to often, it only takes getting burned ONCE by this to just reduce your circle of trust dramatically.
Is there a perfect bluetooth device out there? Sure. If I go through the amazon listings will I find that device? I doubt it. If I buy from apple will I get it? I think so.
The price of these headphones is ridiculous, I don't defend that. If they are able to sell them at this price I'll be a bit surprised. But overall, they have built user trust up pretty high.
It's amazing to me how many folks seem to have no clue about what folks value in the apple ecosystem.
Call folks fanboys (I use windows / linux all day for my job by choice).
Do your "solved problem" bluetooth headphones allow EASY audio sharing when the kid is sleeping and you want to watch something with your wife? These are two bluetooth devices on same audio stream.
Does your solved problem bluetooth headphones RELIABLY connect to your current device (without having to unpaid with another device). That is game changing.
The problem is, folks have listened to folks like you so many times and gotten BURNED so many times. Oh, it "should" work you say. Total BS at least 20% of the time.
I won't buy the max'es because I have no need for something that nice. But the $159 for the airpods? Slam dunk.
You should go back and listen to the criticism of the airpods when they came out - overpriced, stupid, whatever. Then check out sales numbers.
Do that again with the apple watch maybe? Started slow, but I'm curious what their top competitor is by $ revenue - they have just improved and improved.
This is a bit of an interesting and somewhat unusual situation.
In most cases, your finance team (internally) will be the one to pick up on the fact that stuff doesn't make sense.
They won't be able to tie the invoices to subsequent payment to get an accounts receivable schedule to show who still owes what.
They won't be able to get the stripe reports / merchant clearing disbursement reports to agree to the GL clearing accounts.
It's also rare for the CEO to have the only access to bank statements. Fraud risks are often higher in finance team, as they are the ones who catch problems elsewhere, but can be hard to catch problems with them.
This make me wonder how experienced the startups accounting team was.
- Do an in warranty battery replacement (within 1 year)
- Pay a repair shop or apple for a new battery.
- Apple runs one of the most comprehensive recycling and trade-in programs out there. Every store offers both trade-in value for devices that have it and free recycling for those that don't.
https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/
- They will send you a fedex label if you want to fedex in your airpods for recycling if you are too lazy to actually go to a store.
People helping the environment are out there doing it, and others sit on HN too lazy to take even the minimal steps to reduce their impact.
And no, other companies you buy your totally wireless bluetooth headphones from do not make all this easier, but MUCH MUCH harder.