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Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features

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149 points elsewhen | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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windex ◴[22 Oct 24 02:23 UTC] No.41910585[source]▶
Fragile and too expensive to replace often. The software updates that apple pushes on to them screws them up. Happened to my first set of airpods and swore off of them since then. The batteries are awful too.

My go to since then has been the one plus z2 headsets, brilliant call quality, great form factor, decent ANC, and fantastic battery.

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tptacek ◴[22 Oct 24 02:36 UTC] No.41910668[source]▶
Because everything I've ever heard about acquiring dedicated hearing aids has been about what a joy they are to purchase, maintain, and operate.
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1. MBCook ◴[22 Oct 24 03:45 UTC] No.41911003[source]▶
That’s what I’ve heard too. And they didn’t like the ones they had to get in the end, they didn’t work well but that was all insurance would cover.

But if they’re $4000 a pair, that’s _sixteen_ pairs of AirPods 2 Pro. Assuming you don’t get them on sale.

So if you lose/break ‘em every 6 months, which seems quite excessive, that’s still 8 years to break even with “real” hearing aids.

And that’s not to mention the fact that you can buy replacement individual AirPods or cases cheaper than a full set. Or just get AppleCare so replacements are even cheaper if you tend to lose/damage them a lot.

Even if you buy them and they convince you hearing aids would be useful but you want more traditional hearing aids, it still seems like it might be a good value. Compared to risking $4000 on something you might not even feel is that useful to you.