[crazygringo]

Bluetooth is famously finicky.

Apple headphones "just work" with Apple devices.

You can switch audio from your phone to your Apple TV with a single confirmation click. No need to unpair and then manually initiate a connection on your desired device.

I don't know how competition law enforcement is going to make Bluetooth work better?

But your solution would be to make Apple technology worse?

[mattlondon]

FWIW, I've found outside of the apple ecosystem that Bluetooth just works. Everything supports pairing to multiple devices. I have a M1 MBP that I sometimes use non-apple Bluetooth headphones with and I can't say it is any different than android or windows.

You will get problems if you buy no-name things from Amazon, but you always get problems when you buy anything no-name off of Amazon.

You will also get problems if you use Linux of course (even with good headphones), but that obviously goes without saying. Yes yes I am sure you can get Bluetooth to work reliably in Linux by just recompiling the kernel and change your alsa config to use jack to remap your output to yada yada yada... No thanks.

[nothead]

Bluetooth isn't as finicky as it appears when you use non-Apple products. After the initial pairing process, I can connect any of my devices to any other device with a bluetooth radio, and all I need to do is occasionally tell one device what my intent was if it connects to the wrong thing (say, connecting to my car instead of my headphones. Or connecting to the wrong TV).

Some cheaper devices are more difficult (I have a super cheap bluetooth receiver for an old car where you need to turn on the BT on the phone before turning on the dongle) but nothing along the lines of "unpair, repair, unpair, repair".

The behavior of Apple devices interacting with non-Apple devices is an intentional design choice by Apple to NOT support seamless interoperability. That's very different from the underlying tech being inferior to Apple's proprietary solutions.

[mvdtnz]

Have you used a bluetooth device in the last 8 years?