Re:Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?
by oneplane on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:12PM
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I haven't had any issues with Bluetooth on a Mac so far, ever since the BT 1.2 days. I've used Mac OS X, macOS and Linux on PowerPC and Intel Macs with both built-in Bluetooth hardware and USB bluetooth adapters, and all of them were fine. Doesn't seem to be an issue in either the Apple-implemented bluetooth hardware or software to me...
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?
by kalleboo on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @10:22PM
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My MacBook Pro Retina 2012 had really flakey Bluetooth. Speakers, Apple Keyboards/Trackpads you name, they'd randomly drop out and need to be power cycled. My 2017 seems a lot more reliable though (knock on wood)
Apple to this day doesn't support aptX. It's plain embarassing.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?
by oneplane on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @08:16PM
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Why? It's not like they say they do, but then don't. I've seen far more implementations where the product is listed as supporting a whole bunch of profiles and technologies, but then either doesn't implement it in a useful way or simply never works no matter the device. Most often this is with devices that originally used audio, but then added support for calling, address book, media controls etc. but implement them poorly or downright broken in a fashion that makes the base functionality even less usable than it was before.