Re:AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with o...
by danielheath on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:43PM
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And most of the $25 ones are also crap, because someone figured out folks will buy the more expensive one since "it must be better" & started filling that market with junk.
These are exceptions and of course they couldn't be predicted because if they could they never would have shipped.
The problem isn't a once-in-a-product-line huge design failure, the problem is that there is currently a race to the bottom in consumer electronics.
When faced with a $25 coffee grinder and a $15 coffee grinder people choose the $15 coffee grinder. However the $15 coffee grinder is made using cheap plastic gearing that the engineers know will fail within a year or two of normal use.
This is not that complicated -- engineers aren't stupid and materials science is incredibly mature.