Latko

That is precisely what one would want to do. Replace the battery in the each bud. The Galaxy Buds got a 6 out of 10 from ifixit due to the relatively easy procedure to replace the coin cell battery in each bud which is available online. These buds last 2 years as we know now. Great moneymaker for Apple “the environment friendly company” Any disposable plans ?

There is just one, overall conclusion: Joni did it again !!

Bringing the utmost in design and dedication he completely redesigned the AirPods into a well-deserved, follow suite appliance. Loosely but courageously playing with their original lines, it took audacity and a firm stance towards lamentation - as sitting on his laurels could have been temptative with the broad acceptance of his award-winning, classical design statement.

However, he resisted that and went into stunning detail: Every individual molecule not only became carefully reassessed but also meticulously redimensioned. Every atom got retrofitted and recommitted towards its inner essence, and evaluated in its main aim: to contribute to style and elegance of the overall concept. The former tentpoles became re-evaluated where it came to their intrinsic function, now to reappear in a completely new occurrence: the amputated kolibri leg.

In a research that took over 13 years and went as far as Guatemala and South-Paraguay, the inner spirit of the South-American jungle bird appeared to have the closest resemblance to the essence of the AirPod, with its wings twittering at the full frequency spectrum of from -4 to 40kHz while maintainting complete mechanical balance and supreme homology across its whole structure. As only few of us realize, the kolibri also is amongst the rarest species, just like the AirPod early adopter that - despite what all commercial blog and web publicity wants us to believe - remains shy, fragile, vigorously trying to behave casual during social events, at every public appearance with these unreferenced remainings hanging out of his or her ear. In striking similarity, the kolibri’s timid appearance gives away that it actually wasn’t created to be another animalist, trivial part in the foodchain. It actually appeals to a more pristine, spiritual level of Life.

Sometimes it seems it doesn’t want to be there on the streets, and only exists because The Creator wanted it to. And that Creator’s disciple chose to take that analogy and take it to a further level, again, as expected in Cupertino, in line with his recent, revolutionary iPad (/mini) reincarnations. Adequately responding, in complete anticipation, to the quest for new colors, 256 to be exact, in their unique integration of universal white: the unified coagulation of all color desires across the hemisphere. In that, he found the new, serene way to express existence, meaningfulness, and pristine essence of the venerable plastic enclosure shaped to universally fit every human ear on the planet (except possibly yours)
As only Apple can do.

randominternetperson said:

Wow, what a critical and hard-hitting piece of journalism.
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Shrug.  I have a 2016 MacBook Pro and I love it and am in the "large percentage" of users without a problem.

Now that’s great news.
And to get relevant to the matter, you’re gonna borrow it to someone affected ?

He IS very much involved and solving the problems of the Print industry: threatening them with an even bigger issue - not being on Apple’s Newsstand

curtis hannah said:

The answer is will it make Apple money, and the answer is it sure as heck will.
Will they be as popular as competitors or replace other peoples means for buying magazines and games, it certainly won't on day 1, and I don't see Apple TV+ being half as popular as Netflix or the news service being used by 10% of Apple users, but that may just be me underestimating.

Agree. But that’s not relevant for Tim. These services will be pure cash burners from day 1, but cross-subsidisation will make them possible and cross-financing (staffing, office, licenses, server, bandwidth) via the holding will obscure that so Tim can call it a “huge success” anyway. Just like Apple Music that - as Jimmy Iovine conceded - can’t exist by itself. It’s investors incentives that wil finance this via stock price - as all FAANG companies do. And if those investor perspectives cease to exist, so will Apple