Apple AirPods
Apple AirPods. (Via Apple)

When Apple announced this week that it was ditching the headphone jack on the new iPhone 7, and cutting the cord on a new generation of Earbuds called AirPods, an internet that apparently was raised on not taking good care of its things collectively freaked out.

Now, I’ve lost a few things over the years, including my way, my keys, an axe and a few bets. But none of those things was valued at $159 the way the new AirPods will be.

But people who misplace things outnumber me, Twitter tells me, and thus there is a great fear that AirPods will be an AirPod, or less, before too long after their October introduction to the masses.

How will this happen? How will something you needed bad enough to spend $159 on it go missing? Howtoloseanairpod.com counts the ways.

screen-shot-2016-09-09-at-1-52-34-pmGo ahead and click “another one” and “another one” and so on. It’s certainly not an all-inclusive list. And the methods by which misfortune will fall upon Apple fans aren’t all entirely likely.

screen-shot-2016-09-09-at-1-49-41-pmBut it’s at least a fun way to understand that Apple’s “courage” to go wireless when it comes to headphones is in fact generating a good deal of angst.

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