I admit that I know next to nothing about hardware engineering, but I can’t fathom how it would be possible to continue to miniaturize consumer products at scale while maintaining durability, quality and keeping them repair friendly? Would love some one with the right background to explain how they would design an AirPod like device that could be fixed by your average repair professional/shop/dealer/etc (let alone me at home).

Recyclability is a concern though!

Maybe miniaturization isnt really a great goal?

At some point we are going to have to start trading convenience for environment

Maybe we don't need airpods.

I find it hard to imagine that a product which lasts 2 years and is smaller than a shot glass can be much of an environmental concern. I would have to throw away 10000 pairs of airpods to match the volume in a landfill of throwing out a single TV. Similarly, 10000 pairs of airpods use about as much raw materials as that single TV. This just seems like the wrong battle to fight

And who repairs flatscreen TVs? A very small percentage of the market

Ahh to be back in the 90’s where our only environmental concerns were 9v, AA and D-cell batteries

CRT tubes, Asbestos, Dioxin, yeah, the last decades of the 20th Century were just great.