Without rare, proprietary tech, these earbuds are useless.
Who else saw this coming? I feel like most of the focus was loosing the earbuds and not the case.
Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless
Submitted 5 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 days ago
there’s should me a law which allows you to buy each component of a product separately in such a way that each component together costs the same as ever whole.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
That wouldn’t change anything in this specific case, since you can’t buy the whole anymore either.
Angelusz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So, basically this writer is admitting here that she’s not careful enough to own and protect high quality products. Cool. So don’t buy them. Just run without music or use your crappy cord.
Even then, there’s so many sellers of these things, just buy a brand that’s more established etc. – what a non-article.
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
No, the writer freely admits it is their fault. They try to get a new case, but it’s no longer available. The problem is lack of first party support and third party options.
The same as whatever those ai pins were called.
There should be laws specifying minimum support times and open sourcing code and hardware after that.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
How would you even start to enforce those laws against a company that no longer exists? It’s one thing to prevent the AI companies from selling a product that relies on continual support in the first place, but these earbuds will work until the batteries degrade (and theoretically longer if you can manage to replace them without destroying the things) with or without the company’s existence. The fact that the user lost the case with no company to replace it doesn’t seem to me to be the kind of thing that you can really address legally, unless you make the companies put a certain stock of parts in escrow or something, which seems potentially clear more wasteful than the status quo.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
superior cord, but ok. the only drawback to a cable is it gets snagged on stuff which is easily circumvented by having the cable in your shirt down to your pocket. the drawbacks to those things are battery, losing 1, losing both, losing the case, pairing issues, wireless quality, pairing issues and I’m sure there’s a bunch more.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The other drawback to a cord, no phones fucking come with jacks anymore. “Just use the USBC” isn’t a solution until they start putting at least two USBC ports, either.
I miss my damn cords.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 days ago
And somehow there are people out there that think it’s OK for this to happen to games too to then spread misinformation about Stop Killing Games.
Anti Commercial-AI license