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by ISL 5y ago

oliv__ 5y ago
Queue private agency testing, evaluating and rating products on the market
- rtkwe 5y ago
  Cue rating agencies passing anything because hearing aid companies can go to another rating company if they don't, like what happened with mortgage securities in the 00s...
  - watwut 5y ago
    Yeah, it is totally impossible to have competition on regulated market. Monopoly is only possible solution. Or something.
- antifa 5y ago
  https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen
- heavyset_go 5y ago
  Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the_subprime_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...
giantg2 5y ago
Is that really going to be a thing? Earbuds have been out for a long time and are easily capable of destroying hearing.
- PoignardAzur 5y ago
  As someone with a relative who install these: yeah, it can be a thing. The gap between "too soft, doesn't help you hear" and "too loud, damages your hearing" can be narrow. Usually it's more of a problem in the other direction, with doctors playing it safe and tamping down the aid to the point of uselessness.
im_down_w_otp 5y ago
Total aside, in this context I think it's "cue". Like a cue card.
toomuchtodo 5y ago
Bose’s hearing aids were recently approved by the FDA, and they’re only $850. The APM Marketplace program recently covered this development and the hearing aid monopoly. The sky isn’t going to fall. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444600/marketplace https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444600/marketplace https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/earbuds/soundcontrol-hearing-aids.html https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/earbuds/sound...
- mgerdts 5y ago
  $850 each and as of a month or so ago only available in 3 states. At Costco you can get what seem to be high end hearing aids for $699 each. The current generation are rechargeable and support bluetooth. This includes the free hearing test free fitting ("real ear", which is current best practice) and followup so long as you have a membership. The key thing that is lacking is a decent app or api for me to write my own. Oh, that and phone conversations using the hearing aid's bluetooth is pretty bad.
  - toomuchtodo 5y ago
    Half seriously, Medicare should consider including a Costco membership with their coverage for the elderly.
- the_third_wave 5y ago
  > Bose’s hearing aids were recently approved by the FDA, and they’re only $850. Only $850? That is a new use of the word only as far as I'm concerned. These things, which are in many ways similar to if not identical with bluetooth earbuds should not cost more than those - and given the fact that Apple managed to convince people that $200 is a normal price for these things that should leave more than enough margin for an unhealthy profit margin seeing as how the ones I'm using cost ⅐ of that while achieving a longer battery life.
  - toomuchtodo 5y ago
    Traditionally, the cost for hearing aids runs in the thousands of dollars. Perfect is the enemy of good enough, progress takes time.
odiroot 5y ago
*Cue

Queue "overpowered OTC aids destroyed my hearing" pushback...

by ISL 5y ago

Queue "overpowered OTC aids destroyed my hearing" pushback...

oliv__ 5y ago

Queue private agency testing, evaluating and rating products on the market

rtkwe 5y ago
Cue rating agencies passing anything because hearing aid companies can go to another rating company if they don't, like what happened with mortgage securities in the 00s...
- watwut 5y ago
  Yeah, it is totally impossible to have competition on regulated market. Monopoly is only possible solution. Or something.
antifa 5y ago
https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen
heavyset_go 5y ago
Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the_subprime_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...

giantg2 5y ago

Is that really going to be a thing? Earbuds have been out for a long time and are easily capable of destroying hearing.

PoignardAzur 5y ago
As someone with a relative who install these: yeah, it can be a thing. The gap between "too soft, doesn't help you hear" and "too loud, damages your hearing" can be narrow. Usually it's more of a problem in the other direction, with doctors playing it safe and tamping down the aid to the point of uselessness.

im_down_w_otp 5y ago

Total aside, in this context I think it's "cue". Like a cue card.

toomuchtodo 5y ago

Bose’s hearing aids were recently approved by the FDA, and they’re only $850. The APM Marketplace program recently covered this development and the hearing aid monopoly. The sky isn’t going to fall. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444600/marketplace https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444600/marketplace https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/earbuds/soundcontrol-hearing-aids.html https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/earbuds/sound...

mgerdts 5y ago
$850 each and as of a month or so ago only available in 3 states. At Costco you can get what seem to be high end hearing aids for $699 each. The current generation are rechargeable and support bluetooth. This includes the free hearing test free fitting ("real ear", which is current best practice) and followup so long as you have a membership. The key thing that is lacking is a decent app or api for me to write my own. Oh, that and phone conversations using the hearing aid's bluetooth is pretty bad.
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  Half seriously, Medicare should consider including a Costco membership with their coverage for the elderly.
the_third_wave 5y ago
> Bose’s hearing aids were recently approved by the FDA, and they’re only $850. Only $850? That is a new use of the word only as far as I'm concerned. These things, which are in many ways similar to if not identical with bluetooth earbuds should not cost more than those - and given the fact that Apple managed to convince people that $200 is a normal price for these things that should leave more than enough margin for an unhealthy profit margin seeing as how the ones I'm using cost ⅐ of that while achieving a longer battery life.
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  Traditionally, the cost for hearing aids runs in the thousands of dollars. Perfect is the enemy of good enough, progress takes time.

odiroot 5y ago

*Cue