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.
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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.
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.
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 far more wasteful than the status quo.
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.
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.