It’s an arbitrary label. Who cares?

idk seems like apple is working on something more powerful and doing minimal tweaks to last years line.

I get the big phone because my hands are big.

They just wanted to sell IPhone 14 pros.

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I’ve had my original AirPods Pro which I’ve used every day since launch 3 years ago and I have zero battery degradation whatsoever.

AirPods do not last 8 years. I would be surprised that anyone using AirPods more than a couple of times a week would get much more than 2 years of use before the battery degradation started to become annoying.

Apple have a lot of engineering talent. There is not a single reason on this Earth why they couldn’t make the battery a replaceable part. Maybe not “every use can do this on their own” easy, but certainly “as long as the user has some basic tools for PC / tech repair work and the battery is a standard module available to order from Mouser or RS Components etc.” easy.

Which is why I have Sennheiser wireless headphones.

I have a pair going four years strong with some decreases in battery life but manageable.

Not against sweat, it’s corrosive and once it’s in there you have to worry about electrolysis. There is a reason it is not done. The battery is as isolated as possible against sweat intrusion because of this.

Put locktite or petroleum jelly in there, or a rubber seal. Then it's waterproof. Plus if the positive and negative terminals are far enough apart you'll never get a short between them.

Then sweat wicks in and you get corrosion or a short, not great with a lithium battery that goes partially in your head

Unless something major has changed in the last two years Airpods really aren’t that gimped on Android. I used them when I had Android and had no problems, and there are apps in the store that replicate the iOS stuff somewhat.

Not really relevant for me. I lose and have to replace my AirPods anyway every 6 months.

Bought haylou gt1 xr more than 2 years ago, when it came out. Works perfectly with daily 6+hrs of use. I bet it will work for another two years... Anything apple has problems with battery... And curiously enough, i can diy my asus smartwatch battery change... Works well, still waterproof.

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I have been using the first ever bluetooth airpods for close to 7 years

It's always about cost and efficiency of making it, after the actual discovery. The economic part is the next step. Kind of like how Tesla really boosted the electric car market, making EV chargers way more widespread for it to be feasible, etc etc

lol

Came into the comments specifically for this.

It should last 5 to 10 years, unless you let it sits with flat empty batteries too often or too long.

Apple is literally the company still supporting 8 year old hardware what the fuck are you on about?

Machine learning.