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Gimme a break. Big Apple fan here, but AirPods work really great for the first 12-18 months and then.. Especially Gen1

I expect devices which go through constant charging/discharging to start noticeably degrading after 500 cycles, and to be very degraded by 1,000 cycles. Have consumer goods progressed beyond this yet?

No, they have not. Companies probably see no reason to innovate here either -- it is one of two major reasons for their customers to buy new devices.

(1) Battery is nearly useless.

(2) The vendor decided to artificially slow the device with forced updates, or worse, the vendor decided to publish a list of CVEs and then declare your device ineligible for the necessary security updates going forward.

I assume it is because of physical limitations in current knowledge of battery technology.

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