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Apple Plans Hearing Aid Social Networking

Posted by timothy on from the hearing-aids-are-amazingly-expensive dept.

theodp writes "Apple may have killed off Ping, its attempt at a music social network, but the USPTO on Thursday disclosed that Apple has patent-pending plans for a hearing aid-based social network. So, if Apple's granted patents covering its Social Network for Sharing a Hearing Aid Setting and method of Remotely Updating a Hearing Aid Profile, will it use them to 'go thermonuclear' on Google when the search giant gets around to improving its current offerings for the hard of hearing?"

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  1. Re:Leave my Hearing Aids Alone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Herp derp. ASSISTED COMMUNICATION. As in, picture boards, text-to-speech, and other ASSISTED communication devices - for people who cannot communicate via the spoken or written word as I would. (I'd say "as you or I would," but your post leads me to believe that you're an undiagnosed retard who needs an Assisted Communication device yourself). Assisted communication doesn't cover your "email and instant message with the other fucktards in my office" use.

    Also, it's "practical," and "dependencies," and "desirable," dipshit.