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by crazygringo 2588 days ago
My experience with Apple and Bose devices has been pretty flawless, across keyboards/mice, headphones and speakers.

I'm curious if the problems are with Android, with non-premium speakers/headphones, or a combination of the two? And why? (Is it not following the spec, bad UX, or insufficient QA/testing?)
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slig 2588 days ago
> My experience with Apple and Bose devices has been pretty flawless

Mine have been terrible. I have a 2018 MB Pro and a pair of QC35 II and it stutters dozens of times during the day. Before that I had a 2014 MB Pro and a cheapo BT headphone and have similar issues.

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vel0city 2588 days ago
I had been using bluetooth headphones without issues for a few years. After moving into a new apartment, I started having all kinds of intermittent problems. Turns out the microwaves in the apartment complex were pretty bad, causing a ton of 2.4GHz noise. The Chromecast would also start dropping video streams whenever my roommate would cook stuff. Is there a source of a ton of 2.4GHz noise causing your problems?
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slig 2588 days ago
That makes a lot of sense. I had to upgrade to a newer 5 GHz router because the 2.4 was impossible to use, and I do live in an apartment complex. Thanks for the insight.
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m-p-3 2588 days ago
The bluetooth on my MBP2017 seems to work like shit if I try to use my bluetooth headphones (Plantronics Voyager 8200UC) and a bluetooth mouse (Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse 3600). The sound will stutter and the mouse will lag, no matter if I reset the OS, and I even got the MBP replaced under AppleCare yet it didn't resolve the matter.

None of this happens with those two peripherals on my Dell work laptop (Dell Precision 5200).

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