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How Bose compete with AirPods — and why it’s in more cars than ever, with CEO Lila Snyder

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Is Open Ear Technology Bringing Hearing Health Technology to Consumers?

Open ear technology may start to solve some of these challenges about social cues and the ability to bring hearing health into more of a consumer device. I would think about open your audio as in the experimentation stage, right? You know, we've had frames. We had the sport open earbuds. There was an earlier product that we had, which you kind of wore around your neck and it created an open-air experience. But there's something about transparency, not just transparency mode where I have something stuffed in my ear and I'm able to get it. ...There's something magical there"

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