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Everyone’s AirPods Will Die
- mft_ 7y agoInteresting example to consider. I can usually mostly understand Apple (and others) making batteries unremovable, as it allows them to pack the maximum battery into the minimum space (and sometimes a awkwardly-shaped space which wouldn't support removability anyway). However, in the AirPods example, the 'stalk' doesn't appear to hold anything except a battery, charging contacts, and an antenna for bluetooth reception. This being the case, it should have been possible to design the 'stalk' as a self-contained unit which would then have been easy to swap out; it would have needed maybe a millimetre extra to incorporate contacts to transfer power and the antenna signal.