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?

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

> 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.

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.

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.