Airpods are a pretty brilliant product though. Who needs planned obsolescence when people just lose and repurchase a $100 product several times a year?

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) January 24, 2020

Apple has been pretty brilliant here — create a terrible product that costs $100+, and that people seem willing to lose and then purchase 2-3 times a year.

Now that’s capitalism.