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That's true. But they were going to sell them because they were reliable enough. For a while there, bluetooth headphones were a nightmare.


Bluetooth is a nightmare. My jbl little box won't catch my phone's awesome vibes unless they touch, otherwise audio gets chopped. I'm still trying to find my simple in-in jack which has much better range than "touching" and will make the setup give me less cancer.

Also to hell with cordless peripherals, my so called keyboards and pointers are all catching dust because there's an inexorable demand for these little toxic disgusting things called batteries, and don't you dare go a year or two without using your computers and thus managing their little chernobyls! technology from Apple and the modern crowd can be trusted alone as much as a newborn and a rattlesnake.


This is a very, very personal and subjective take.

I've literally countless bluetooth audio and non audio devices and I don't have issues with any of them.


My MBP disconnects from BT speakers several times a day. It's 2 feet away, both are stationary.


Apple is notorious for having terrible Bluetooth on their devices.


Ironically the bluetooth on my AirPods, Macbook and iPhone are miles better than any other device I used in terms of bluetooth.


I sure do love chasing down which device my headphones are currently connected to to convince it to disconnect because I need to take a video call...


My headphones connect to whatever device is currently being used unless I tell it to otherwise.

Again a very specific anecdotal point.


My headphones enumerate the device(s) they connect to when I turn them on. I can find out which by simply power cycling them.


(Because *they'd made the things reliable enough, themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465668)




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