[tripzilch]

Especially blocking hearing aids features for people who need those should be criminal

[happyopossum]

Hearing aids are highly regulated in many markets, as they are medical devices. Not building and getting certification / approval doe software to support every operating system is far from ”criminal”

[jjkaczor]

Having recently purchased "medical hearing aids" - as a tech user, they are complete garbage and if I did not get a "friends & family" discount, they would have been returned months ago...

[gumby271]

I think the point is that selling a medical device that also requires you to use that vendors mobile device or lose access to them is just a little scummy. My motivation to keep using an iPhone shouldn't be that I'd need to buy new hearing aids if I left. Apple knows how this works, they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

[Zetaphor]

Financially gatekeeping access to vital medical resources is par for the course here in the US