Personally it is a pet peeve of mine that people have these things in their ears. I work in a building with malfunctioning elevators and student at my Uni are like they are 90 years old and deaf, when you try to warn them about a danger in the environment and they say “WHAT?” and take them out.
That doesn’t address why anyone would specifically care if someone needed AirPods as hearing aids.
People wearing AirPods bother you? I would have more concern about the malfunctioning elevators.
You can’t change what other people do, probably not even in your hazardous environment. You might have some influence on fixing the dangerous elevators.
We’ve got a crew working to replace Cab 3 right now. If you got stuck in Cab 1 or Cab 2 during the week I think they’d have you out in 5 minutes. Nights or weekends might take a little longer.
(You might say “Why not take the stairs?” Well that is hard because there is no stairwell from floor 1 to floor 6, there is a bullpen of graduate students that I don’t have the key to in the way so I’d have to go to the back of the building, then go maybe to the 4th floor, go all the way back to the front and then down a long hallway, then up the side staircase and then back out to my office.)
Back on topic though I find it is hard to get people’s attention if you have something to say with them and I think there is nothing more urgent than potential dangers in the environment, like cars.
As for the OP I think you have to understand that he is a preeminent poster of questions to HN presumably in search of Karma so you have to see it through that lens.
I didn't look at the OP or know their history, so I took the question at face value. I don't see the point in questioning if someone wears AirPods as hearing aids, or just pretends to, or wears them for some other reason. As an older person with some hearing loss I look forward to the hearing aid features for my AirPod Pros, but I may also have Judas Priest blasting and just passing myself off as hearing-impaired. In either case that's no one's business.
Re-reading the original question maybe I misunderstood. OP seems to ask if hearing-impaired people will use AirPods to improve their hearing, but then "lie" about that, presumably out of embarrassment. If I wear AirPods to improve my hearing, and then someone asks if that's why I wear them, I can't think of a reason to lie about that. Maybe OP thinks that because modern hearing aids can hide pretty well in the ear, but everyone can see AirPods. I will guess that OP hasn't reached the age when one notices hearing loss. Do people wear contact lenses to hide their deficient vision? Perhaps, but I think convenience explains it well enough.
In any case asking someone if they wear AirPods because they have hearing problems strikes me as rude, not deserving an answer, not something I would lie about.
I understand that in some situations wearing earbuds or headphones, especially noise-canceling models, can put the wearer in a dangerous situation. I live in SE Asia where people wear earbuds and don't pay attention when crossing the street -- a potentially deadly behavior. If I could prevent an injury I would, and it wouldn't matter in the moment if the person wore AirPods to listen to music or as hearing aids.
Probably, but I won't believe them.
Why on earth would you care about why other people wear Airpods?
Personally it is a pet peeve of mine that people have these things in their ears. I work in a building with malfunctioning elevators and student at my Uni are like they are 90 years old and deaf, when you try to warn them about a danger in the environment and they say “WHAT?” and take them out.
That doesn’t address why anyone would specifically care if someone needed AirPods as hearing aids.
People wearing AirPods bother you? I would have more concern about the malfunctioning elevators.
You can’t change what other people do, probably not even in your hazardous environment. You might have some influence on fixing the dangerous elevators.
We’ve got a crew working to replace Cab 3 right now. If you got stuck in Cab 1 or Cab 2 during the week I think they’d have you out in 5 minutes. Nights or weekends might take a little longer.
(You might say “Why not take the stairs?” Well that is hard because there is no stairwell from floor 1 to floor 6, there is a bullpen of graduate students that I don’t have the key to in the way so I’d have to go to the back of the building, then go maybe to the 4th floor, go all the way back to the front and then down a long hallway, then up the side staircase and then back out to my office.)
Back on topic though I find it is hard to get people’s attention if you have something to say with them and I think there is nothing more urgent than potential dangers in the environment, like cars.
As for the OP I think you have to understand that he is a preeminent poster of questions to HN presumably in search of Karma so you have to see it through that lens.
I didn't look at the OP or know their history, so I took the question at face value. I don't see the point in questioning if someone wears AirPods as hearing aids, or just pretends to, or wears them for some other reason. As an older person with some hearing loss I look forward to the hearing aid features for my AirPod Pros, but I may also have Judas Priest blasting and just passing myself off as hearing-impaired. In either case that's no one's business.
Re-reading the original question maybe I misunderstood. OP seems to ask if hearing-impaired people will use AirPods to improve their hearing, but then "lie" about that, presumably out of embarrassment. If I wear AirPods to improve my hearing, and then someone asks if that's why I wear them, I can't think of a reason to lie about that. Maybe OP thinks that because modern hearing aids can hide pretty well in the ear, but everyone can see AirPods. I will guess that OP hasn't reached the age when one notices hearing loss. Do people wear contact lenses to hide their deficient vision? Perhaps, but I think convenience explains it well enough.
In any case asking someone if they wear AirPods because they have hearing problems strikes me as rude, not deserving an answer, not something I would lie about.
I understand that in some situations wearing earbuds or headphones, especially noise-canceling models, can put the wearer in a dangerous situation. I live in SE Asia where people wear earbuds and don't pay attention when crossing the street -- a potentially deadly behavior. If I could prevent an injury I would, and it wouldn't matter in the moment if the person wore AirPods to listen to music or as hearing aids.