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This could be the butterfly keyboard all over again. I find it really hard to believe that Apple isn't testing their products with real people, it's more likely such issues are just getting ignored or shrugged off when discovered. Which is possibly more disturbing.

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...or the rattlegate, which is very much happening with the current generation of airpods pro.

Still annoyed that Apple made me use one of my $29 AppleCare replacement slots for that when many forums say that they've gotten theirs replaced under warranty.

And the signal drop issues with the iPhone 12

All of these seem like natural expected results of designing and developing something in secret to the level that Apple takes it.

When only a few people even know something exists, you can't very well test it properly.

Or maybe there is something else going on in the case of the headphones, like Apple execs thinking they know everything and ignoring the expertise that may actually exist within the organization in the form of Beats employees.

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