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It's $50 for Apple to change the battery. My Airpods from 2017 still last around an hour, which is fine for when I need to get on meetings.
by turtlebits 4y ago
It's $50 for Apple to change the battery. My Airpods from 2017 still last around an hour, which is fine for when I need to get on meetings.
- Wingman4l7 4y agoI call bull on this -- the plastic halves of the earbud casings are ultrasonically sealed together; you have to break them apart to get at the guts (and IIRC the battery is also soldered in). Just look up the iFixit teardown; they're completely unrepairable. My bet is, they are just swapping them out with refurbs and writing off the loss against their AppleCare earnings.
- Gigachad 4y agoThey are absolutely just giving you new ones. Id suggest it's largely possible because the profit margins are quite high on them so giving you new ones is way cheaper than the retail price.