Marco Arment

So that kind of thing nobody's really asking for.

But serviceability and modularity in wearable parts, that's the important thing.

The important thing with the Fender headphones, things like replaceable batteries.

Because when you're looking at modern headphones, like back when headphones were wired,

there were two ways your headphones would die.

One was the ear pads would rot out, and you could replace those for, you know, 20, 30 bucks.

The other was the cord would wear out where it meets the headphones, usually, like at that joint, or maybe at the plug side, but usually at the part where it meets the headphones.

And for most people, most people couldn't service those tiny little wires.

And, you know, so that usually you would just replace them at that point.

Well, that see that came later.

That was not common until relatively recently in the world of headphones.

Like the last 15 years, maybe that's when that really became common with wireless headphones.

Like once everything moved to Bluetooth, you still have the ear pads being possible to wear out over time.

But usually what wears out far before that is the battery.

As we know, with any rechargeable battery-based device, those batteries have a certain lifetime.

You know, Beyond Mix, they don't really hold a useful charge.

And if you're using a lithium-ion battery in some kind of device, like, regularly every day or a few times a week, you're going to get a few years out of it, maybe.

And, you know,

once you go past, like, four or five years, you're probably not going to have a lot of battery life left.

And headphones, like, the rest of headphones, the actual speaker drivers, the enclosures, like, most of that stuff can last way longer than four or five years if it's not abused.