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So your theory is what, malice? Apple makes AirPods the cheapest hearing aids by a long shot, except for some customers that they hate? The problem is simple:
by samatman 2y ago
So your theory is what, malice?
Apple makes AirPods the cheapest hearing aids by a long shot, except for some customers that they hate?
The problem is simple: hearing aids are regulated products, and countries tend to insist on individually certifying them. Getting the right to market AirPods as hearing aids in the US wasn't cheap, I'm sure.
There needs to be international harmonization of these regulations. It isn't just hurting Apple and Apple's customers, it hurts everyone.
Perhaps Apple has decided that it's too expensive to pass those regulations in certain markets, but my bet is that it just takes longer in the EU and India. I guess we'll see.
- Krasnol 2y agoOP didn't say it's about hate, and why would you assume OP meant hate? There are many other obvious reasons. Like the market share for example. To hate requisites that you care enough...and that you are not a corporation...
- blkhawk 2y agoThen don't bloody call it a hearing aid then in those countries - call it "adjusted transparent mode with equalizer". Stuff that coincidentally works as a hearing aid is not regulated as far as I can tell anyway simply because I never heard of a government that would confiscate an amplifier with an equalizer function build in as soon as somebody plugged headphones and a microphone into it.