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I'm not steelmanning Bluetooth as a whole, or wireless audio as a sterling concept. Multipoint Bluetooth is better than iCloud switching, in my experience. In t
by talldayo 3y ago
I'm not steelmanning Bluetooth as a whole, or wireless audio as a sterling concept. Multipoint Bluetooth is better than iCloud switching, in my experience. In the rare situation where I'm juggling three devices at once, I turn off Bluetooth on whatever I'm not using and keep on rolling.
I can believe that some manufacturers dropped the ball on it, but none of my headsets are really that finnecky. Jabra, Sony, JBL, Samsung and even Skullcandy all seem to have good implementations from what I've seen. Fundamentally, any protocol-level solution is better than playing Monkey in the Middle with Bluetooth MAC addresses online.
- fragmede 3y ago> In the rare situation where I'm juggling three devices at once If you're not running into that situation very often, then you're not going to consider problems with it a problem. Personally, between my personal phone and laptop, and my work phone and laptop, turning off Bluetooth isn't a good enough solution, especially because I also have a Bluetooth keyboard, and mouse in the mix as well.
- talldayo 3y agoWhen I do carry two computers, they're not going to both feature iCloud syncing. Multipoint is still the more seamless option for me, but I guess you could pass the point of utility if you own 3+ iDevices with nothing else to sync.
- lloeki 3y agoOh I'm not using any iCloud switching either, just straight up Bluetooth connection requests from previously paired devices. It just turns out that two clicks/taps when I want my headphones from the device I'm currently using is a mindboggingly more simple, consistent, and reliable solution than whatever a headphone's vendor firmware tries to intuit about what I actually want to do from the fact that it's receiving audio.