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If you are sharing BT headphones between multiple devices this is horrible. I turn off BT on the device where I do not need the headphone to avoid BT connection

If you are sharing BT headphones between multiple devices this is horrible. I turn off BT on the device where I do not need the headphone to avoid BT connection confusion.

hnaccount_rng 5y ago
That’s only because you don’t use AirPods. And I don’t actually mean that snarkingly. I’m a truly lazy person, so I bought AirPods just because I knew they’d work and I wouldn’t have to fiddle with them. But reading these kinds of replies, especially in a tech savvy forum, makes me realize how valuable these little conveniences are
- rickdeckard 5y ago
  Tech savvy guy here. Would have been nicer of Apple to just contribute a generic improvement back to the Bluetooth Standard, instead of solving a problem by creating "AirPods Bluetooth" and split the market. Using that course, Google went and made Google-custom enhancements to Bluetooth as well, to apply nearly the same improvements to the user experience as Apple did. And now here we are, with a universal standard that should work across different products and industries, but for good user experience you now have to brand-match your Bluetooth devices... Really sad to watch common standards die. With all its flaws aside, I wonder if anything like Bluetooth would even be possible to happen today...
  - jsilence 5y ago
    Bluetoth as a standard ist pretty botched, sadly. If I understood correctly it is a bunch of only loosely related protocols between major versions. And implementations often seem to be lacking. At least my experience with BT is horrible and over time loaded with hate and anger. Interesting to hear that Apple managed to solve the issues within their closed ecosystem. So at least a solution DOES exists. The world could be so much better! Agree that it would be nice it thos solutions could penetrate the non-Apple world also.

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If you are sharing BT headphones between multiple devices this is horrible. I turn off BT on the device where I do not need the headphone to avoid BT connection

by jsilence 5y ago

If you are sharing BT headphones between multiple devices this is horrible. I turn off BT on the device where I do not need the headphone to avoid BT connection confusion.

hnaccount_rng 5y ago
That’s only because you don’t use AirPods. And I don’t actually mean that snarkingly. I’m a truly lazy person, so I bought AirPods just because I knew they’d work and I wouldn’t have to fiddle with them. But reading these kinds of replies, especially in a tech savvy forum, makes me realize how valuable these little conveniences are
- rickdeckard 5y ago
  Tech savvy guy here. Would have been nicer of Apple to just contribute a generic improvement back to the Bluetooth Standard, instead of solving a problem by creating "AirPods Bluetooth" and split the market. Using that course, Google went and made Google-custom enhancements to Bluetooth as well, to apply nearly the same improvements to the user experience as Apple did. And now here we are, with a universal standard that should work across different products and industries, but for good user experience you now have to brand-match your Bluetooth devices... Really sad to watch common standards die. With all its flaws aside, I wonder if anything like Bluetooth would even be possible to happen today...
  - jsilence 5y ago
    Bluetoth as a standard ist pretty botched, sadly. If I understood correctly it is a bunch of only loosely related protocols between major versions. And implementations often seem to be lacking. At least my experience with BT is horrible and over time loaded with hate and anger. Interesting to hear that Apple managed to solve the issues within their closed ecosystem. So at least a solution DOES exists. The world could be so much better! Agree that it would be nice it thos solutions could penetrate the non-Apple world also.