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How hard is it to remove batteries from AirPods? Watch me cut one open.

October 8, 2019 | 3:00 PM GMT
Tens of millions of people own AirPods, Apple’s most successful new product in years. But each one of those white buds contains a rechargeable battery marching toward an untimely death in as little as two years.