A loophole is useful in the scenario that Google wants the good PR of being seen as as privacy-focused by restricting location tracking, even to itself, but sti

A loophole is useful in the scenario that Google wants the good PR of being seen as as privacy-focused by restricting location tracking, even to itself, but still wants to collect as much location data as it can. That said, I don't believe this is what's happening for the headphone pairing case. It's easier and likely more fruitful to limit functionality of popular apps unless fine grained location and is enabled and you are logged in to your Google account, which is what I believe they do with Maps.