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Lack of simultaneous 2+ device pairing is still a deal breaker for me. If my $80 Jabra earbuds can figure it out, why can't Apple?



Apple figured out how to get your Apple devices to talk to each other to do the Bluetooth handoff automatically disconnecting/reconnecting your AirPods from your iPhone to your MacBook, iPad, Mac Mini, etc., and back, without you having to do anything.

The fact that this only works with Apple devices is, from Apple's perspective, a feature not a bug.

It also allows them to keep the bill of materials inside the AirPods smaller, cheaper, and lower power, because they only require a single Bluetooth transceiver to pair with an unlimited number of Apple devices, unlike your Jabra which requires two Bluetooth transceivers to support dual device pairing.


AirPods Pro will "pair" to an unlimited number of devices (or at least a very high number). But it can only be connected to one device at once.


Why do you think it's a case of them not being able to figure it out, rather than they don't want the feature?




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