11个月前

Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets

arstechnica.com Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets

Swap the batteries, tips, charging case, shell, or even just individual buds.

But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don't do this not because they can't but because they don't want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.

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Meh.
Overpriced.
I can buy 3 or 4 pairs of BT5 earphones for the price of these.
My most expensive pair currently was $75.
I've never had batteries go bad in them - they get broken well before that happens. Though I have a noise canceling headset from 2006 that still works. Battery lasts long enough.
I'd rather break a pair of $30 earphones, and have multiple spares than a single pair of $150.
And they all sound about the same given the source and environment.
- Overpriced.
  their entire premise is making sure that people on the supply chain of their devices are compensated adequately (hence the "Fair" in the name), which is why their products are more expensive than you're used to.
  
  Nooooo! You can pry my cheap tat produced by child labour from my cold dead hands!
  
  It's called feel-good marketing. Similar to organic veggies or ethical coffee from Starbucks.
  
  I don't know about Starbucks or Big Organic Veggie, but Fairphone publishes annual reports on sustainability and life quality of their workers.
  
  Of course, that's part of the marketing idea. Starbucks (and many others with feel-good marketing) did the exact same, until it leaks that it wasn't quite the truth.
  It's not for nothing that Fairphone is guilt-tripping in rich countries ;) But still exploiting poor countries.
  And downvote me what you want. It doesn't make you immune for cheap marketing tricks. People with a Fairphone are the same kind of people who brag about how their cup of Starbucks saved a life, stepped right into the trickery.
- While I’m not blaming you, what you’re saying is really the problem in our society.
  
  I blame his mother. There, I said it.
  
  But their mother's mother is to blame for their mother!
- I totally get it, why buy one expensive thing once, when you can buy cheap stuff that will cost more in the long run? 5 times 30 surely is cheaper than 1 times 150.
  From my experience, there is just stuff where you don’t want to cheap out on. Don’t get me wrong, there is no need to buy „premium“ stuff when good stuff is about the same quality but cheaper, but buying cheap stuff, just because it is a little less than the good stuff usually never pays off for me
  
  Sadly in my experience the boots theory is no longer accurate as the $50 pair of boots fall apart as quickly as the $10 pair, especially when talking about electronics. There may be longer lasting devices out there but the price is so beyond my price range that it may as well not exist.
  Updated for 2024, the boots theory would read something more like a $50 pair of boots lasts for one year and is mostly comfortable to wear, the $10 pair lasts for one year but is uncomfortable to wear, and the $2000 pair of boots is comfortable and will last many years but anyone who buys them will toss them after one year anyway when "the fashion" changes.
- When I shopped for wireless earbuds, I spent a half hour comparing the top brands (most expensive), so I ended up asking the clerk what he used (saw one in his ear). The ones he recommended were $20 and they're great, sound decent, and last all day.
  Sometimes cheap is just as good.
- My batteries are already on their last legs in the Sony tws, but I'll be replacing them with new ones.
  If your $30 earphones break before their batteries do, maybe consider buying something that does not break in a year of use?
- In my experience 30 bucks is a terrible price range for in-ears or headphones, mostly Chinese garbage that fails after a few months, maybe a year or two tops, even with just light usage. My current ones were at around 100 bucks and already outlived my previous cheap ones by quite a bit. That being said, FairPhone is kinda well known for being overpriced in regards to cost vs quality too, at least with their phones.

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