Re:FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software
by systemtest on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:25AM
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The Samsung Galaxy Buds only have 360 audio and the better audio codec if you use a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Doesn't even work on other Android devices let alone iOS. And as far as I know you can't tweak the hearing aid features of Galaxy Buds on any device.
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Re:FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software
by vel0city on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:36AM
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If you can't actually tweak audiogram settings, they're not really hearing aids. In fact, Samsung doesn't sell them as hearing aids and from what I can tell never use the term "hearing aid" in any of the marketing, branding, or feature listing of the devices.
They're not FDA approved as hearing aids, so they're not hearing aids.
Either way, pointing to another company being shitty isn't really a good justification of the first company being shitty.
Re:FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software
by freedomben on Friday September 13, 2024 @02:41PM
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Just trying to understand your argument: Samsung does it so that makes Apple ok? I hear a lot of people argue (when defending Samsung, Google Play, etc) that Apple does it so it's ok, but not usually the other way around. I guess it makes sense that it would devolve into the spiderman meme, but the real losers in that are everyone else that isn't making money from it.
Personally I thinks it's shitty when anybody does it.