It sounds to me like the scope of criticism was right in between the two things you're suggesting: "disposable tech that sells in the millions and only has a li

It sounds to me like the scope of criticism was right in between the two things you're suggesting: "disposable tech that sells in the millions and only has a lifespan of 2 years tops like AirPods." In this case, I would take take the word "like" to mean "such as". Your first potential interpretation instead implies that you interpreted it to mean "specifically". And the second ignores all the qualifying adjectives. For my part, I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the dominance of products with built-in, non-replaceable rechargeable batteries in products that don't permit or are fundamentally incompatible with corded use. Because if a fundamental component that it needs in order to function happens to also be a non-replaceable wear item, then yeah, it is a disposable product. As a point of basic morality, we should not be blithely making disposable products that cannot be safely disposed of. It doesn't matter how convenient it is to us, our kids and our grandkids and our peers in less wealthy countries and their kids and grandkids are the ones who will be stuck dealing with the polluted waterways, and we have no right to force that upon them just because we think cords are annoying. It's really not so different from the leaded gasoline that my grandparents thought was so convenient.