I love the saccharine tone of the article. If this happened to another brand of earphones and the guy was dealing with a different electronics store, it would be filled with rage and tears.
Yep. I had similar problems with my AirPods and wasn't about to be Apple's debugger for free for hours on end - I just returned them.
That doesn't make for as interesting a story, but it's clear they were rushed out the door (poor soldering according to the teardowns, tons of problems like this report, extremely limited supply months later) and it really makes me wonder about the future of Apple when they can't even nail hardware anymore.
I know the canard of "don't buy V1 of an Apple product" but it seemed to have been better in recent years. Until this, at least.
Or maybe he's just not that kind of guy? Looking back at his blog posts, he recently had a similar problem with TP-Link USB hub and I don't see any rage or tears.
