The Right to Repair with Aaron Perzanowski
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The Design of AirPods Is Hostile to Repair
Sally Kohn: AirPods are a really wonderful example of product design that is just entirely hostile to the very idea of repair. You buy them, use them until the battery is depleted and then dispose of them in one fashion or another. She says Apple actually has to pay their recycling partners a premium to even take the AirPods because they're so difficult to recycle. Kohn: That's a design that is imposing massive costs on the public when we think about the tens of millions, hundreds of millions of pairs of these things that have been produced.
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