Re:Hardware Isn’t Hard, Competing with Apple Is Hard
by Domenic_S on Monday November 06, 2017 @12:43PM
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I have airpods and although the _initial_ sync is magical, it's just like every other set of bluetooth headphones when you've got more than 1 device to choose from. If I have my macbook and phone side by side and put in my airpods, they always connect to the phone. I have to go to the mac's bluetooth menu to choose airpods if I want to listen from my mac (icloud sync doesn't seem to work).
Re:Hardware Isn’t Hard, Competing with Apple Is Hard
by canuckintime on Monday November 06, 2017 @12:47PM
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Many other Bluetooth headphones have a variation of a feature called 'multipoint' which allows you to be connected to both devices at once so you don't have to choose and switch choices each time
Re:Hardware Isn’t Hard, Competing with Apple Is Hard
by 1123581321 on Monday November 06, 2017 @11:25PM
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You can choose the AirPods from the volume icon on the menu bar, or are you saying the AirPods don’t show up there? I switch between iPhone and Mac audio a few times a day.
Re:Hardware Isn’t Hard, Competing with Apple Is Hard
by Domenic_S on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:07PM
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They don't show up there. I've deleted them and re-paired, but they never have. I also have Beats with the W1 chip, and they don't show up there either.
Re:Hardware Isn’t Hard, Competing with Apple Is Hard
by canuckintime on Monday November 06, 2017 @11:56PM
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he's saying you shouldn't have to manually choose when switching
Re:Hardware Isn’t Hard, Competing with Apple Is Hard
by 1123581321 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @02:54AM
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I see. I think I would like it if they could play all audio from all devices at once. Similarly, it would be nice to control phone audio with the Mac volume and pause keys while using AirPods. I didn’t expect any of that, though.
Syncing is usually relatively painless but reliably and "instantly" reconnecting is a long ways off. I have maybe a 50% success rate without going to Settings>Bluetooth and clicking on the device. That inexplicably fails about a quarter of the time and I have to powercycle the speaker and toggle bluetooth off/on a few times until it decides to work again.
That rate drops to basically 0 if the speaker is paired to multiple phones, or there are multiple speakers in range of my phone.
If I had to deal with that multiple times per day like with headphones I'd just give up and return it.
I have one absolutely reliable connection (turntable>bluetooth transmitter>stereo) but even that one takes about 15 seconds to establish after turning everything on.