> They seem to have less points of failure to me - they're fully encapsulated (usually glued shut)
This just means they're harder to repair? That's not a reduced point of failure in really any sense.
Wired headphones are some wires, solder, also often glue, and a driver. Wireless headphones have batteries, internal computers that need to communicate wirelessly with devices and - in the case of True Wireless Earbuds - themselves, and in general more parts that are more delicate crammed into the same or smaller space.
> don't have to physically interface with anything less than simple metal charging pads. Compared to physically being shoved into something and yanked out and a cable that is being manipulated.
What a strange point. Unless you're wirelessly charging some AirPods then... You're gonna have to charge those things with a physical cable. That will have to be, as you so hyperbolically put it, "shoved into something and yanked out."
Fortunately, any decent headphones worth your money anticipate such rude treatment and have their cables be easily replaceable.
Wireless headphones can't be said to do the same for their batteries that will inevitably wear out.
I don't know if maybe you don't use Bluetooth headphones, but no they don't have a physical cable you plug in. They do it wirelessly and with pad contacts.
This just means they're harder to repair? That's not a reduced point of failure in really any sense.
Wired headphones are some wires, solder, also often glue, and a driver. Wireless headphones have batteries, internal computers that need to communicate wirelessly with devices and - in the case of True Wireless Earbuds - themselves, and in general more parts that are more delicate crammed into the same or smaller space.
> don't have to physically interface with anything less than simple metal charging pads. Compared to physically being shoved into something and yanked out and a cable that is being manipulated.
What a strange point. Unless you're wirelessly charging some AirPods then... You're gonna have to charge those things with a physical cable. That will have to be, as you so hyperbolically put it, "shoved into something and yanked out."
Fortunately, any decent headphones worth your money anticipate such rude treatment and have their cables be easily replaceable.
Wireless headphones can't be said to do the same for their batteries that will inevitably wear out.