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Still if you could do that , wear a noise silencing headphones an be in total silence(instead of music), won't it be nicer ?

Another question: are those earphone strongly decrease non-continuous noise(like talking) ?

Maybe i'm optimistic ,but building a dsp that connects to a few mics and an earphone amp using low latency adc's is protected.

And the other stuff is software, which in general is very hard to enforce patents on with torrents etc.

Maybe it's your personal taaste(or that you haven't tried the right earphones) , but at least according to reviews, many are quiet pleased with a good noise cancelling tech when it's working well.

Sure, you'll probably need dedicated low latency hardware. But that's probably relatively cheap, and shouldn't prevent apple ,or even a smaller company doing something in that area.

When i look at the bose QuietComfort earphones - earphones that are supposed to have(according to reviews) the unique ability to greatly block non-constant noise(for example talking) - and ability that to my knowledge nobody else has, and on the other hand are really expensive($270) and beyond the reach of many, i wonder:

Would some sort a programmable(app based) headphones enable an affordable noise reduction earphones that do a great job ?

Because all in all , noise is huge problem and a huge potential market.

This actually is quite a generic problem - most non-fiction books have a little bit of great wisdom , and a lot of fluff.

Creating a marketplace/business-model for people who write more content dense non-fiction seems like an interesting problem.

Another guess is: they are competing on price. Nobody else can offer a mayday like service at that price point.

One big question - how much does mayday cost for amazon ?

One view is that , as far as eCommerce , mobile is really hard(very low conversion rate) and nobody has yet cracked the formula.This could be a very big risk to amazon if someone cracks it before them.

So they want to find the formula to do it right.and they must do it alone - because sharing data with others is risky. One good bet on the formula is a physical shopping button and the whole button thing. So they try.

But since it's only a trial and not a full fleshed phone with a business model(maybe it was at some point, but competition is hard and changed that),It makes sense to offer it in limited volume - more economical, easier to try new things over smaller groups, etc.

So the price is in order to sell to a few, but once they crack the formula, they prices will probably go down.

This same "trial" theory could also be true for mayday - because customer support is expensive ,but very valuable for a retailer.

Not wanting to discourage you, but reddit.com/r/science does something pretty similar and very successfully - they have 6 million subscribers ,many comm enters are scientists, and the comment quality is usually very high , and they have the reddit mail support which is highly conductive to getting responses from people.

Be realistic. What's the likelihood it's a bomb vs the likelihood of propaganda ?

> Cisco (Linksys from time to time) and others who have had a hub

The hub didn't include low power wireless which is essential for IOT.