Thank you for letting me know about that! 😃
I hear you. I’m the same way. I take my AirPods off when I go into a grocery store. It just looks too aloof, self-centered, and self important walking around a store with earbuds on.
Exactly. I think some are too quick to praise this as revolutionary. Well maybe in a sense. But OTC hearing aids have their place but don’t replace prescription hearing aids.
Hope it works, let me know! Once of my friends has been deaf in one ear from birth so it took a while for his brain to adapt. The other had hearing loss later in life and it helps instantly.
I think nowadays we need to celebrate that this is not a subscription!
The difference is Apple actually know in detail the SPL delivered precisely. Mimi is likely working off an Apple spec sheet. The internal facing mics on the Air Pods can establish fit factor which has an impact on SPL delivered to the ear drum. It can also account for ear canal resonance. Not hard to believe that Apple's internal algorithms will be better able to report the information because they can use live raw data from all the sensors/mics
The Mimi hearing test app is still available on the App Store and can be used to create an audiogram which can than be used in the iPhone settings to boost those missing frequencies. The music app is pulled. I still have it on my phone but it just shows a screen saying the service will be closed march 2020 and if you still want to enjoy personalized music check out our partners. I tried googling their patents to see who owns them and interestingly although the founders had their breakthrough with Mimi in 2014 the first patents they own that I could find were filed in 2020. Looks like they either didn't bother to patent the technology prior to pulling the app or more likely they sold the core patents to someone. It may be Apple who bought the patents straight, it may be some other investors, who knows.
yeah, maybe I am outdated in my 30s but I always take out 1 AirPod to talk with someone if he/she/it spoke.
I could. But I paid $0.00 for my devices. Hard to beat that price
There is something different. You need the USB-C case version to get lossless audio with the Vision Pro.
Same, although I work in a noisy office. With AirPods Pro the noise reduction feature is key to being able to hear on calls or listening to a meeting. It’s pretty awesome to take calls, stream music, audiobooks, etc, through my hearing aids, too! For me, it just doesn’t work in a loud office.
Is somehow Apple preventing you from using your "old Sony headphones". I don't think so, you can still perform hearing tests, the headphone accomodation (which is the feature that uses the results of the hearing test) has always been exclusive for AirPods and Beats, so I don't know what you are talking about.
You must have deaf of stup!d friends. OR you are just making this up.
The standard new AirPods were described as "open air", which you might have misheard as over the ear?
A true hearing test involves more than just tones. There are words spoken that the listener says back. This part of the test determines how well an individual understands speech. Speech is more important than simple tones. The Apple future capability may include this test. The Mimi app with simple tones is a start, but is not complete. The speech and tone tests are done in a sound proof room. Finding such a location in a home environment is impossible.
