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I guess "don't suck" is relative, but my AirPods failed after about a year. It's a coin toss now whether their microphone will work or not, rendering them unreliable and worse than useless for the work Zoom meetings I bought them for. Maybe I'm old-fashioned for expecting any piece of technology to last longer than a year.

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It sucks. But in the EU/UK you would have simply got them replaced.

There was an extended repair program for AirPods Pro, so they would've got them replaced anyway.

Buy devices like that with a credit card that has warranty extension. Homeowners and renters insurances sometimes also include extended warranties. Applecare is another option, of course.

This is my complaint as well. On multiple pairs, the microphone becomes unreliable after some number of months. If I'm lucky, it's within the warranty period.

The mic is pretty bad anyway.

And to add insult to injury, your listening audio quality also gets degraded whenever it's on... So it's a lose-lose for both sides every time you use it.

My main complaint is that OSX has no setting to completely disable it. I have to manually switch to the Macbook internal mic basically before every call.

I wish they would just sell a model without the crappy mic. I would even happily pay less for it.

The audio quality thing is a Bluetooth limitation AFAIK. There is no standard which lets you stream high quality audio bidirectionally, their high fidelity mode has only one audio stream going to the headphones.

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