[abdullahkhalids]

I have three devices: personal laptop (thinkpad/linux), work macbook, personal android.

It's absolutely insane trying to get exactly the one I want connected to my earphones. Basically, I have to make sure two of them have bluetooth off, so the third one reliably connects. Otherwise, sometimes left earphone will connect to one device, and right to other.

This is a deficiency of the protocol that there is no sane way to do this.

[LeafItAlone]

I guess this is were Apple does things well within ecosystem.

I have: personal MacBook, work MacBook, personal iPad, personal iPhone, and an old personal iPhone I use as a lower-distraction music player. I also often connect to my Fire TV stick to listen to TV without disturbing others in the house.

With my AirPods, this is all pretty seamless these days. I never have to turn Bluetooth off on them.

[abdullahkhalids]

Yes, apple fixed this by appending to the protocol. The Bluetooth standard should consider doing something similar.

[palata]

I feel like Bluetooth has improved a lot. Maybe it just takes time to propagate everywhere...