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Re:The next generation of AirPods by Lio on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:13AM (#28914800)
Does it really only work with Apple headphones?

That's terrible. I like Apple products but I hate the way they push to make things proprietary that could be open standard.

I guess that makes services "sticky" for a lot of people but it pushes me away from the ecosystem,

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Re:The next generation of AirPods by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:53AM (#28916466)
Apple should want their customers to choose their products because they’re better. Arbitrarily reducing compatibility is a sure fire way to make your customers resent you.
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Re:The next generation of AirPods by Tagbert on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:25PM (#28919984)
It’s less that they are reducing compatibility and more that they saw limitations in BlueTooth and built extensions into their devices to handle additional use cases.
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Re:The next generation of AirPods by ddggdd on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:22AM (#28918393)
the whole point of apple is that they choose for you
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