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Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features

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282 points elsewhen | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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Almondsetat ◴[22 Oct 24 05:51 UTC] No.41911548[source]▶
You can say a lot of things about Apple, but which other consumer-facing tech company adds features meant to accompany people throughout every phase of their lives? People are growing with their smartphones, and the need for some functionalities only starts to become obvious later in life.
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makeitdouble ◴[22 Oct 24 12:39 UTC] No.41913631[source]▶
> which other consumer-facing tech company

SONY.

Apple really took Sony's playbook and ran with it, with the whole ecosystem play and strategy tax. Jobs famously took inspiration from there, Sony lost to Apple on the music market though, and got toasted again on mobile phones, despite having been researching the market for so long.

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tim333 ◴[22 Oct 24 14:54 UTC] No.41914891[source]▶
They even basically copied the iPhone design off Sony https://es.pinterest.com/pin/78742693455593417/

And then freaked out when Android copied that off them which seemed a tad hypocritical.

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1. mannyv ◴[22 Oct 24 15:23 UTC] No.41915203[source]▶
Uh, no.