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Good thing most people carry those around for other purposes. That $1000 tiny computer in their pocket just swallowed yet another thing that was once discrete.
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> In contrast, the AirPods run out after a few hours and are also destined to become landfill due to their built in battery. Also will entrench the user in a walled garden ecosystem from a very specific giant tech company that isn't big on making their products compatible with other companies.
> will entrench the user in a walled garden ecosystem from a very specific giant tech company that isn't big on making their products compatible with other companies Are you suggesting AirPods aren't Bluetooth 5.3 and aren't compatible with Bluetooth audio sources? Or that it doesn't play AAC, MP3, and FLAC? The proprietary capabilities (such as instant smart switching between active devices) are all incremental, tak…
Better wait for more open competition to catch up unless you are already deep in their ecosystem and not intending to move.
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Good thing most people carry those around for other purposes. That $1000 tiny computer in their pocket just swallowed yet another thing that was once discrete.
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I don't think I've ever seen someone with a hearing aid and though anything negative of it, I get it people can be self-conscious, but for something like a hearing aid I think it's unjustified. On the other hand, I can't bring myself to keep earbuds (airpods or w/e) in my ears while talking to someone, regardless of if I can hear them properly, I just seems incredibly rude. My uneducated opinion, is that someone usin…
A buddy had a girlfriend who had reduced hearing. I noticed that people would raise their voice and really dumb down when speaking to her, like they were talking to a senile elderly. It'd happen before she'd said a word, so they clearly saw the hearing aid and assumed. She admitted she disliked wearing the hearing aids, due to such things. But the alternative was not following conversations, which meant she'd get exc…
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Med device startup cofounder here. In terms of difficulty in your path to market, from hardest to easiest (and ignoring some less common pathways): 1. Pre Market Approval: you're addressing a completely unproven technology in a novel and or dangerous space. Usually Class II and above. 2. De Novo: you're adding a new technology to a somewhat well known space. Usually Class II+ 3. 510(k): There's already something in t…
As much as I am in favor of cutting red tape, medical devices should not be received in 30 days max.
There should always be an upper bound to how long somebody can block your progress. If something was so important that they want to block me, why didn’t they tell me before Friday? That was ample time to raise objections.
It’s just an SLA and holds people accountable.
This is huge. Previously if you were hard of hearing, a pair of hearing aids could cost upwards of $2,000. Now Apple just brought that price down to ~$250. Even if you use them everyday and assume a shelf life of 1.5yrs (which is roughly mine and others' experience with AirPods), you would be replacing your Airpods for 12 years before the cost caught up with a single pair of hearing aids. Even if you think Airpods ar…
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https://swappa.com/buy/iphones
I mean, I'm all-Android all-the-way, but I think the used market is viable for this.