New Delhi, June 13 -- which follows a $42 million revenue drop in the wired category in 2024 alone - has been attributed, loudly and somewhat lazily, to Gen Z nostalgia and celebrity snapshots. The actual explanation is more complicated, and more damning for the wireless industry.

not enough to ruin a commute, but enough to shorten the gap between charges, to strand a user mid-flight, to make the device feel disposable precisely when its price tag still stings. The charging case itself adds a second failure point. Sennheiser, a brand that staked its reputation on engineering precision, acknowledged widespread charging failures in the Momentum True Wireless 3 model, in which energy stored in the case could not transfer to the earbuds at a...