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Bluetooth is quite amazing in general. What it is capable of with extremely low energy usage is just mind blowing really. I think the main reason it gets a bad

Bluetooth is quite amazing in general. What it is capable of with extremely low energy usage is just mind blowing really. I think the main reason it gets a bad rap (e.g. vs WiFi) is that the radio link is conflated with all of the messiness of codec/protocol compatibility and features provided over said radio link. If there were standards for devices to stream audio over WiFi links, I imaging we'd see nearly similar frustrations in codec, latency and compatibility issues - it's incredibly complex. Much respect to the engineers out there who make it a good experience. I personally tried my hand at tackling wide-band speech support with PulseAudio etc [1] and I was humbled by the complexity present in the protocol/codec layers. Hats off to the teams at both PulseAudio and PipeWire who have brought wide band speech support to Linux Desktops :) [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1838151 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/18...

listless 4y ago
I think the main problem is exactly as the article states - there no standard for how things connect to each other. If they could just make the connection standard everywhere, that would get rid of a ton of the silliness.
- jeffnappi 4y ago
  Try getting thousands of organizations to agree on something and then implement it successfully... The complexity of the problem far surpasses that of the technical standards themselves.
  - pessimizer 4y ago
    That's what we have governments for. Individual companies trying to set standards often just lose business to the companies they interop with, and the one that does best among the interoperable defects (or extends and extinguishes.) Instead of making individual companies strategize around interop, you just impose it. The real problem is that this doesn't work with regulatory capture, because you need people formulating standards who have both independence and expertise.
  - listless 4y ago
    “The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from”

listless 4y ago

I think the main problem is exactly as the article states - there no standard for how things connect to each other. If they could just make the connection standard everywhere, that would get rid of a ton of the silliness.

jeffnappi 4y ago
Try getting thousands of organizations to agree on something and then implement it successfully... The complexity of the problem far surpasses that of the technical standards themselves.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  That's what we have governments for. Individual companies trying to set standards often just lose business to the companies they interop with, and the one that does best among the interoperable defects (or extends and extinguishes.) Instead of making individual companies strategize around interop, you just impose it. The real problem is that this doesn't work with regulatory capture, because you need people formulating standards who have both independence and expertise.
- listless 4y ago
  “The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from”