To work on customers who are interested in over-the-counter hearing aids

The actual reason is that AirPods know how loud the audio they're playing is, which means it can be tracked, which means it can be used in a research study.

I mean, how would hearing aids help with tinnitus?

anecdotally, my ENT said he has had an onslaught of young patients w tinnitus who use them. but kids also tend to blast volume.

unrelated: another big cause of tinnitus is Viagra. it drives too much blood to the sensitive ear arteries

> unrelated: another big cause of tinnitus is Viagra. it drives too much blood to the sensitive ear arteries

Could pre-workout have these same effects? They usually contain vasodilators, although at much lower strengths than Viagra.

reported tinnitus is heavily anxiety correlated and younger generations are more anxous, it seems

makes sense!

they're going to completely obliterate the hearing aid market for most general cases

At this price point it’s completely welcome. Folding an overpriced and underdeveloped health market into a commercially successful highly-engineered product is the best the world can ask of trillion dollar companies.

While Apple choices are sometimes dislikeable, I’m really happy that they seem to care about some social problems (accessibility, privacy) giving them so much screen time. They could just invest that time into something flashy and non-consequential and still make boatloads of money.

At least they are building a cheap option for a change, a hearing aid can cost between 500-1500 euros here. Seems like a market that's ready for disruption.