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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They could just have used anything else... or is there no alternative?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They wanted to use the hearing aids feature that Apple recently released but it is not available in India. They found a way to get around the geo restrictions and enable it.

Rithwik Jayasimha immediately went out with his dad to buy a pair for his grandma. “We came back home, we took them out of the case, and I was looking for the feature and it was just missing,”

I believe AirPods are the only earphones with a hearing aid feature so far, and because of how expensive hearing aids are, they are probably the cheapest.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The AirPods are probably much cheaper than regular hearing aids. My parent’s hearing aids cost a couple thousand and they have to replace batteries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Okay that is probably true. Pretty crazy actually. Also cool to have good sounding earphones too.