There are lots of good product reasons why you don't want to do this, but there's also a good chance that they're just not allowed to. Airpods are Bluetooth. T

There are lots of good product reasons why you don't want to do this, but there's also a good chance that they're just not allowed to. Airpods are Bluetooth. Their is a load of IP behind Bluetooth, and they will happily licence that IP for free to qualified Bluetooth devices. So you can't just pick and choose which bits of Bluetooth you like, you have to implement enough of it to meet the standards (you can do stuff on top though if you want). It is possible that a device that refuses to pair/connect under some circumstances to a certified Bluetooth device (e.g. my Android phone, or an iPhone) would fail to meet the specification. There may be a spec lawyer way around it, or there might not be. If there isn't then they just can't do that.