BFLR
Technology is inherently democratizing and decentralizing, get used to it, optometrists and Luddites everywhere...
I've been using them since I discovered all the Nigerian email scammers have graduated to the optometry profession.
I am an optometrist and I feel no threat whatsoever from this technology because:
1. It can’t assure good physical eye health, which is the most important thing I provide to my patients
2. It is just another way to gather data. I use data from several sources to arrive on a final Rx, which seldom matches any one data source exactly. It is both art and science!
3. This is a classic case of caveat emptor. Most will be back.
4. Ditto for online eye wear dispensers, except perhaps for very basic lens designs.
Oh-—this cartel system has been going on since 1920s in America...
“In 1924, Osram, Philips, General Electric, and other major electric companies met and formed the Phoebus Cartel under the public guise that they were cooperating to standardize light bulbs. Instead, they purportedly began to engage in planned obsolescence. To achieve this the companies agreed to limit the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours — less than Edison’s bulbs had achieved (1,200 hours) decades before; any company that produced a bulb exceeding 1,000 hours in life would be fined.
Until disbanding during World War II, the cartel supposedly halted research, preventing the advancement of the longer-lasting light bulb for nearly twenty years. “ (BTW, Shelby’s bulb has lasted over 113 years-—think of all the pollution, etc., caused by light bulb manufacturing and the waste of resources making lightbulbs that don’t last and have mercury in them.)
Actually they have controlled “research” forever, and since they had total control over “information” and “science” they could control the Narrative—like they do now where Vice is Virtue, boys can be girls and Up is Down.
Until the internet, we never EVER received the truth from the elites-—when politicians exposed “truth” like McCarthy, or slapped down like Gen. Patton, they would be destroyed or killed. Truth has been banned for 100 years at least in America.
Truth will set us free-—we must force the politicians to give us the truth—which we have NEVER gotten since before WWI..
https://priceonomics.com/the-mysterious-case-of-the-113-year-old-light-bulb/
I have ordered glasses from several online retailers. Haven’t tried the “exam app” yet.