That’s pretty shitty. But I have a hard time mustering up any sympathy for anyone buying Meta’s
smart glassessurveillance tech. Fuckin’ narcs.While the company insists that owners technically don’t have to shell out $20 a month, even premium subscribers will be locked out after using 15 hours of “Conversation Focus,” a feature that amplifies the voices of people you’re talking to, per month. Without a subscription, owners are restricted to just three hours of the feature a month.
Bwhahhaaha - it’s a hearing aid! Just buy a fucking hearing aid!
In the literal sense, yes. In the clinical sense, no.
That being said, there’s value in a hearing aid that doesn’t look like a hearing aid. It’s why Apple implemented a similar functionality into AirPods.
That being said, this is not a special feature, it’s just Meta leveraging their marketing and ability to change the terms OTA to squeeze every dollar possible out of their customers.
It’s not even that sophisticated. A hearing aid works by directly stimulating the small bones in the ear. This is just a pair of earbuds with audio passthrough and a volume knob
Not all hearing aids are cochlear implants or bone conducting types. There’s plenty that are basically an Airpod.
Source: am a user.
“Our AI has detected you’re taking a lot of videos and photos of children in public. If you would like us to not inform your family and workplace of this please sign up for our $99.99 monthly secrecy package.”
I am in no way a smart glasses advocate. But I do wonder what Australia’s (and other similar countries) consumer rights have to say about this.
