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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by wrboyce on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @08:35PM (#21987358)
You can think of the AirPods being paired to your iCloud account, and connecting to any authenticated devices is generally seamless and very quick.
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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by damnyou on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:07PM (#21987566)
So, not seamless if you use Android, Windows, Linux, a Mac laptop and an iPad like I do.
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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by wrboyce on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:39AM (#21990190)
It would be seamless between the Mac and iPad… I'm unsure how you would expect Apple to achieve it on devices they do not control though?
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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by damnyou on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:30AM (#21991213)
Create a standard. Release it as royalty free. Contribute implementations to open source.

The way it's been done for decades.

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