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This is patently incorrect. Wife switched from iphone 13 mini to samsung s24, and airpods pro 2nd gen immediately started behaving extremely annoyingly to the p

This is patently incorrect. Wife switched from iphone 13 mini to samsung s24, and airpods pro 2nd gen immediately started behaving extremely annoyingly to the point of becoming completely useless for any serious use and she just gave them away to her sister which still is on apple, although she loved them before. Literally all other earpieces work flawlessly with that phone including dirt cheap chinese stuff, apart from apple. Now somebody could come and claim multi trillion company couldnt just nail that pesky bluetooth protocol well, but everybody else can do it better than them, including 15 bucks products. Its all by design. They clearly dont need hardware revenue to have products who can compete on open market, they need their closed ecosystem revenue, hence these dirty practices. There is hopefully a billion or ten lawsuit in the making by courts with balls, ie EU. All the downvotes in the world won't change above.

realusername 1y ago
I can also confirm the problem on a s23, airpods are the only Bluetooth devices which I've experienced cuts in the middle of the audio, similar to an old school radio
- yxab 1y ago
  Does turning off the AirPods automatic device switching feature make any difference?
  - realusername 1y ago
    I didn't try but that's a good idea.
  - dotancohen 1y ago
    How to do that without an iPhone?
coded_monkey 1y ago
I hate to be the Apple fanboy but an anecdote is far from “patently incorrect”. Never had any issues with my AirPods with third-party devices.
- maccard 1y ago
  I’m pretty much the definition of an Apple fanboy - every device in my house is Apple (because the hardware works, is reliable and it works together). That said, I have one windows machine for work and my AirPods just don’t work with it.
philipallstar 1y ago
I have no issues with airpod pros 2 on a nice cheap OnePlus phone. They also pair with my Linux PC through a random Bluetooth dongle and that also works fine.
- bloppe 1y ago
  Can you see the battery level?
  - philipallstar 1y ago
    Ah! I cannot. Interesting. What you never had you never miss (-:
xandrius 1y ago
Have you tried with another device or just using a sample size of one? I'm not a fanboy but I never use Airpods with any Apple product and I can use them properly without any hiccup with several others (windows, linux and android). Maybe there's something up with your phone?
- butvacuum 1y ago
  Quite probable that it's the classic Bluetooth issue of devices fighting to see who gets paired to.
talkingtab 1y ago
Just take apple to small claims court. If everyone who is scammed by Apple takes them to small claims they will have an incentive to change. Without this they have -0.00000000000 incentive to do anything. Even a class action suit won't help. The fundamental question is whether Apple should be able to sell products with lock in. Since there is lockin on all Apple products it is not accidental. In my humble opinion only. You, dear reader, work out your own thoughts.
- jcalvinowens 1y ago
  > Just take apple to small claims court. You can't do that, you certainly agreed to binding arbitration with apple at some point.
  - WheatMillington 1y ago
    Very American-centric response. You cannot contract out of small claims court exposure in my country.
    - jcalvinowens 1y ago
      Go try to actually recover damages from apple and let me know how that goes for you :)
- thewebguyd 1y ago
  > The fundamental question is whether Apple should be able to sell products with lock in. Unpopular opinion in these parts, but I think yes, they should be able to (continue) to sell products with lock in. Where Apple should get in trouble is specifically locking others out, rather than locking their own stuff in. If Apple wants to make a smartwatch that only works with iPhones, fine. What they shouldn't be able to do is block (either intentionally or via undocumented/private APIs and TOS violations) third parties from making a smartwatch for iPhone that can compete on the same playing field as the Apple Watch, with access to all of the same features. Same goes for all tech companies. If you want to lock-in your own first party products, fine, but you absolutely should not be allowed to lock-out others.
turtlebits 1y ago
My pro 2s worked fine on my S21 and S24 ultra. What annoyed me the most is that they would auto connect to my iPad first (if audio was playing)
prmoustache 1y ago
Maybe the issue here is Samsung and not Apple. We owned 2 Samsung smartphone in the last 10 years and both would only accept to charge at a decent speed on with damsung chargers while other smartphones of the household would charge just fine with all of them.

realusername 1y ago

I can also confirm the problem on a s23, airpods are the only Bluetooth devices which I've experienced cuts in the middle of the audio, similar to an old school radio

yxab 1y ago
Does turning off the AirPods automatic device switching feature make any difference?
- realusername 1y ago
  I didn't try but that's a good idea.
- dotancohen 1y ago
  How to do that without an iPhone?

coded_monkey 1y ago

I hate to be the Apple fanboy but an anecdote is far from “patently incorrect”. Never had any issues with my AirPods with third-party devices.

maccard 1y ago
I’m pretty much the definition of an Apple fanboy - every device in my house is Apple (because the hardware works, is reliable and it works together). That said, I have one windows machine for work and my AirPods just don’t work with it.

philipallstar 1y ago

I have no issues with airpod pros 2 on a nice cheap OnePlus phone. They also pair with my Linux PC through a random Bluetooth dongle and that also works fine.

bloppe 1y ago
Can you see the battery level?
- philipallstar 1y ago
  Ah! I cannot. Interesting. What you never had you never miss (-:

xandrius 1y ago

Have you tried with another device or just using a sample size of one? I'm not a fanboy but I never use Airpods with any Apple product and I can use them properly without any hiccup with several others (windows, linux and android). Maybe there's something up with your phone?

butvacuum 1y ago
Quite probable that it's the classic Bluetooth issue of devices fighting to see who gets paired to.

talkingtab 1y ago

Just take apple to small claims court. If everyone who is scammed by Apple takes them to small claims they will have an incentive to change. Without this they have -0.00000000000 incentive to do anything. Even a class action suit won't help. The fundamental question is whether Apple should be able to sell products with lock in. Since there is lockin on all Apple products it is not accidental. In my humble opinion only. You, dear reader, work out your own thoughts.

jcalvinowens 1y ago
> Just take apple to small claims court. You can't do that, you certainly agreed to binding arbitration with apple at some point.
- WheatMillington 1y ago
  Very American-centric response. You cannot contract out of small claims court exposure in my country.
  - jcalvinowens 1y ago
    Go try to actually recover damages from apple and let me know how that goes for you :)
thewebguyd 1y ago
> The fundamental question is whether Apple should be able to sell products with lock in. Unpopular opinion in these parts, but I think yes, they should be able to (continue) to sell products with lock in. Where Apple should get in trouble is specifically locking others out, rather than locking their own stuff in. If Apple wants to make a smartwatch that only works with iPhones, fine. What they shouldn't be able to do is block (either intentionally or via undocumented/private APIs and TOS violations) third parties from making a smartwatch for iPhone that can compete on the same playing field as the Apple Watch, with access to all of the same features. Same goes for all tech companies. If you want to lock-in your own first party products, fine, but you absolutely should not be allowed to lock-out others.

turtlebits 1y ago

My pro 2s worked fine on my S21 and S24 ultra. What annoyed me the most is that they would auto connect to my iPad first (if audio was playing)

prmoustache 1y ago

Maybe the issue here is Samsung and not Apple. We owned 2 Samsung smartphone in the last 10 years and both would only accept to charge at a decent speed on with damsung chargers while other smartphones of the household would charge just fine with all of them.