- it's not an argument against using AirPods as an aid with mild hearing loss if you're already an iPhone user
- it's not necessarily a great argument against buying an iPhone and iPods Pro anyway, given that hearing aids can easily run hundreds or even thousands of dollars more than that combination
- the vast majority of smart phone customers, both on and off HN, have either factored "walled garden" into their buying considerations at this point or never will
- let's not pretend Samsung is not already trying to figure out how to cram this into their next Galaxy Buds for Android users anyway, which will somehow work best with Samsung phones, not so well with other Android phones, and not at all with iPhones, but nobody will really complain about it because whatevs, it's not Apple