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Comment by ziml77

11 hours ago

Same here. Wired headphones never lasted anywhere near as long for me as wireless ones. Any with inline controls were especially prone to failure.

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asdff  6 hours ago

It depends on how you treat them. Some people burn through them like nothing. I have some 20 year old earpods still.

skeeter2020  11 hours ago

or in my experience active use can damage the headphone jack, which is much, much worse

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