Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem
by gumby271 on Sunday November 16, 2025 @02:55PM
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I think the point is that selling a medical device that also requires you to use that vendors mobile device or lose access to them is just a little scummy. My motivation to keep using an iPhone shouldn't be that I'd need to buy new hearing aids if I left. Apple knows how this works, they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
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Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem
by Vegemeister on Monday November 17, 2025 @10:46AM
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A set of airpods + the Minimum Viable iPhone to configure the them to work as hearing aids is way cheaper than standalone hearing aids. Regulatory fetishism around "medical devices" is exactly what enabled hearing aids to become a racket and to remain one long after the relevant electronics became a mass-produced consumer product.
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem
by jjkaczor on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:07AM
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Plus - the medical ones are horrible to use with an iPhone - barely enough volume for watching media - and music has absolutely no bass... (plus, they regularly "forget" their bluetooth sync connections...)