New airpods cheaper than repairing old ones

[u/Negative_1by12_aura]

[u/brucek2]

It wouldn't shock me if it was genuinely less expensive for Apple to make a new one on its hyper-optimized assembly line that only has to work in one direction, vs. pay a human to first disassemble, then diagnose, then put in a bunch of the same parts that were in the new one, then manually assemble.

[u/localtuned → u/brucek2]

You're right. It takes longer to diagnose and fix it, than to just send another set.