Teardowns of new AirPods show no major repairability gains

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https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/news/24/10/airpods-2024-teardowns/-184x111/gsmarena_000.jpg Apple announced its AirPods 4 and AirPods Max with USB-C last month and the team over at iFixt has now shared their teardowns.Long story short, neither of the new AirPods offers improvements in terms of repairability. The small AirPods 4 require a specialized jig holder that keeps them in place while a heat gun helps loosen the adhesive to open up the top half of the buds.AirPods 4 teardown (iFixit)We can then see the speaker and battery components surrounded by heaps of glue.Opening up the bottom of the stem is a lot more challenging and requires a knife to cut...





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