• athairmor@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      The AirPods are probably much cheaper than regular hearing aids. My parent’s hearing aids cost a couple thousand and they have to replace batteries.

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      They wanted to use the hearing aids feature that Apple recently released but it is not available in India. They found a way to get around the geo restrictions and enable it.

      Rithwik Jayasimha immediately went out with his dad to buy a pair for his grandma. “We came back home, we took them out of the case, and I was looking for the feature and it was just missing,”

      I believe AirPods are the only earphones with a hearing aid feature so far, and because of how expensive hearing aids are, they are probably the cheapest.