That’s a possibility.
The thing that really frustrates me is that problem was that the battery was dying sooner than normal, so I called in. There’s no way to check battery health on the device, so they offered mail-in or Genius Bar. I took “Genius Bar” because I use these all day, every day, including for my business phone calls, and I was hoping to get it dealt with on-site.
Genius Bar hooked them up to their laptop, said “the firmware is up to date”, and indicated they couldn’t do anything else. So they shipped it to the repair depot, and my estimated time to get them back is a week or more.
The work order included “depot repair”, at a quote of $0, and “2 part flat rate quote”, at a price of $198. The Genius Bar person didn’t seem to know why that last item was even on there, as I have AppleCare, but she seemed to think that was a “worst case scenario” or something.
If Apple tries to charge me almost $200 for repair on headphones that I have AppleCare on I’m going to be Very Cranky. Although the little speaker grilles fell out quite a ways back, so I have the suspicion they’re going to bill me the “accidental damage” rate, even though the problem has nothing to do with that - it’s the battery.
I honestly can’t even imagine that PowerBeats Pro are repairable in any meaningful way, so it kind of stumps me as to why - with all the electronics in these things - they have no ability to just query a battery health and make a call that way.
We’ll see how it goes, though.