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iFixit Says Teardown of AirPods Max Made Competitors Look Like Toys

(Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:40PM (msmash) from the how-about-that dept.)


After looking at the innards of Apple's new over-the-ear headphones, the AirPods Max, tech site iFixit concluded that the intricate engineering made the lofty $550 price seem almost reasonable. iFixit cracked open the headphones and in summation said, that after looking at competitors, "internally, the AirPods Max's obsessive craftsmanship [1]makes those other extremely capable devices look like toys by comparison ."



[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/ifixits-says-teardown-of-airpods-max-made-competitors-look-like-toys/

They are ALL toys (Score:1)

by ozduo ( 2043408 )

For grown ups

Re: They are ALL toys (Score:2)

by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 )

Toys serve more of a purpose though.

Maybe you mean AAA games. ;)

Ifixit (Score:3)

by TFlan91 ( 2615727 )

[1]https://www.ifixit.com/Teardow... [ifixit.com]

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Max+Teardown/139369

Re: (Score:2)

by dmt0 ( 1295725 )

Thanks. Reading a Slashdot post about a CNET story about iFixit article feels ridiculous.

Re: Ifixit (Score:2)

by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 )

That's why I only read the comments.

*tips temple with finger* *makes I am very smart face*

Perfection is not nothing more to add (Score:2)

by goombah99 ( 560566 )

it's nothing left to take away.

That may be true, but I'll tell you what (Score:2)

by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 )

For the money, I can buy ten $55 less well engineered earphones and not worry about damaging them, and I'll probably get many more years of use time out of those ten devices than out of the one Apple wonderthing - assuming I'm so careless that I need to replace them so often in the first place.

Having said that, of course it's not the same fashion statement - if that's your thing.

So who paid them? (Score:2)

by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 )

Because I do not see any less deliberate planned obsolcence, zero repairability, and a box of utterly idiotic basic premises inside which they even make sense.

In my book, that'd get everyone involved 3 years in prison and 20 years od not working in the same field or industry.

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We may eat your dust,
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