• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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!

    • artyom@piefed.social
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      4 months ago

      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.

    • Dookieman12@piefed.social
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      4 months ago

      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