As a user I don't love having the sound keep dropping out because I went too close to the train station, or because my phone was rotated slightly wrong in the pocket.

I noticed when stepping out of a train BT drops for a brief moment, what causes this interference? The powerlines ?! Interference from other commuters?

...where on earth are you guys that this happens? I'm commuting every day with Bluetooth headphones and never, ever had a dropout while listening to podcasts and stepping on/off trains.

> For developers, yeah, Bluetooth is like a torture device, but for consumers, it's wonderful.

Let me respectfully disagree. Most of the times it's a pain, from my personal experience.

Sure it it's good enough if you're just playing audio, but it's garbage if you need to keep the audio in sync with the video (if you can't do latency compensation), so it's useless for games. And the other major problem is that the audio quality drops down to garbage if you want to use the microphone, as it needs to switch to HSP or HFP. I find it ominous that the marketing for LE audio has completely ignored these problems, instead focusing on minor improvements like streaming directly do both buds.

Wonderful when it works. It's always a crap shoot which device will connect to what. I don't have particularly weird kit.