Interesting. This is a case study for narratives like the green agenda, climate change and so on. On the surface, everything seems plausible until you peek at the details, then it all falls apart.

Lesson: don't judge a book by its cover.

The price tag is enough to do that.

This whole article reads like an ad for all the smaller features of AirPods. So what if the counterfeits don't have every little magnetic feature? The point is to not pay a lot for them. There was a recent video with about USB-C cables (Adam Savage, the Myth Busters guy) that was also X-rays of cables and comparing everything to Apple's cable, also a subtle ad.