Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
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Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
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Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
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It would be illegal for them to sell AirPods in many countries without these lockouts. The sale of medical devices is heavily regulated in most places.
Headphones: legal. Hearing aids: not.
Blame the government, not the company that's following the rules laid down.
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This is a regulatory issue, so you can stop the baseless hating.
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So your theory is what, malice?
Apple makes AirPods the cheapest hearing aids by a long shot, except for some customers that they hate?
The problem is simple: hearing aids are regulated products, and countries tend to insist on individually certifying them. Getting the right to market AirPods as hearing aids in the US wasn't cheap, I'm sure.
There needs to be international harmonization of these regulations. It isn't just hurting Apple and Apple's customers, it hurts everyone.
Perhaps Apple has decided that it's too expensive to pass those regulations in certain markets, but my bet is that it just takes longer in the EU and India. I guess we'll see.
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This is a regulatory issue, so you can stop the baseless hating.
Is it a regulatory issue? Could it be the hearing aid feature has an AI/voice recognition component trained on certain languages when it runs the "enhancement"?
(no idea, just wondering, since the apple page had zero details)
Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
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It would be illegal for them to sell AirPods in many countries without these lockouts. The sale of medical devices is heavily regulated in most places. Headphones: legal. Hearing aids: not. Blame the government, not the company that's following the rules laid down.
Completely ignorant question, but what does it come down to? What if I released this feature but didn't call it "hearing aid", nor positioned it as medical device?
Is a phone with optical zoom, a "vision-enhancing device" and regulated like eye wear?
Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
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This is a regulatory issue, so you can stop the baseless hating.
Is it a regulatory issue? Could it be the hearing aid feature has an AI/voice recognition component trained on certain languages when it runs the "enhancement"? (no idea, just wondering, since the apple page had zero details)
The FDA has to certify the devices for use as hearing aids in the U.S
Other countries have similar regulatory bodies the certify the use of a medical device.
Hearing aids (and things sold as it) are medical devices.
Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be illegal for them to sell AirPods in many countries without these lockouts. The sale of medical devices is heavily regulated in most places. Headphones: legal. Hearing aids: not. Blame the government, not the company that's following the rules laid down.
Completely ignorant question, but what does it come down to? What if I released this feature but didn't call it "hearing aid", nor positioned it as medical device? Is a phone with optical zoom, a "vision-enhancing device" and regulated like eye wear?
Does it look like a duck? Does it quack like duck?
In-ear devices with speaker and mic that look like hearing aids that perform hearing aid function for those with hearing loss? Hearing aids.
Phones, that look nothing like glasses or contacts, and don't serve the same purpose? Obviously not.
Don't be silly. Judges aren't.
Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be illegal for them to sell AirPods in many countries without these lockouts. The sale of medical devices is heavily regulated in most places. Headphones: legal. Hearing aids: not. Blame the government, not the company that's following the rules laid down.
Completely ignorant question, but what does it come down to? What if I released this feature but didn't call it "hearing aid", nor positioned it as medical device? Is a phone with optical zoom, a "vision-enhancing device" and regulated like eye wear?
Presumably depends on the country and the laws. Keep in mind that Apple considers this a new interesting use case - not a killer feature for AirPods. They wouldn’t risk AirPod sales with a gray interpretation of the law.