Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?
by londons_explore on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:41PM
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Do they actually change the batteries in them, or do they just give you new airpods?
I can't imagine the genius bar has tweezers and microscopes for battery replacements in-store...
Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?
by filoleg on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:30PM
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They send you a completely new one. I know of exactly just one person who did it. He noticed that the mesh on the earbud itself was straight up new (his one was dented a little bit in certain spots due to his attempts to clean out some earwax using a sim-card ejection tool), and the plastic was spotless clean with no scratches.
Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?
by themagician on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:12PM
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I'm not sure since I've never done it. My guess would be that they just give you new ones, then send the old ones away somewhere to be refurbished and sold as such. This was my experience with iPhones in the early days, actually. Now they actually try to fix them on site if they can.
Apple apparently DOES offer battery service for these, but it's $49 PER AirPod. If it was $49 for both I might be up for it.
Apple's battery service across the board is just too damn expensive. I get that it's the labor costs involved, but I wish they would put more thought into this.
I have three older iPads, a few older iPhones and a MacBook Air that are perfectly usable minus the batteries. but it would costs hundreds of dollars to replace them all so they just end up sitting in a bin because I don't have the heart to toss them.