Re:Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday c...
by kube-system on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @05:21PM
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> It couldn't have been easy or cheap for them to add all these antifeatures.
It was definitely cheap to add this region lock: it's a single `if` statement calling existing system libraries. The regulatory side of this is the expensive part, and it varies by country, and many places make it illegal for hearing aids to be sold over the counter no matter how much Apple wants to release it there. Even the US would have prohibited this feature until regulatory changes that happened in 2022.
It was definitely cheap to add this region lock: it's a single `if` statement calling existing system libraries. The regulatory side of this is the expensive part, and it varies by country, and many places make it illegal for hearing aids to be sold over the counter no matter how much Apple wants to release it there. Even the US would have prohibited this feature until regulatory changes that happened in 2022.