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by praseodym 208 days ago
Multipoint connectivity is part of the spec but apparently AirPods only support it if you pretend to be an Apple device.
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part of which spec revision? what date did it come out? and what date did airpods come out. compare the two dates. i'll wait...
The multipoint spec was added to Bluetooth 4.0 in 2010:

https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/core-specific...

The Battery Service 1.0 spec was officially adopted in 2011:

https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/battery-servi...

The first airpods were released in 2016...

Please consider that simping for a trillion dollar company might actually not be in your best personal interests...

What do you mean by "multipoint spec"? I have written a few BT stacks (you might have even used one I wrote at one point or another) and I have no idea what you mean by that phrase. Please cite a section of the spec or proper name of what you are talking about.
If you're such an expert then you could have likely found this even easier than I did:

https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/multi-profile...

Airpods already do this all...

They support HFP and A2DP and AVRCP, and properly, including all of those features working on android phones and proper switching between them as needed...

The argument (which I assume you deliberately ignored) is that those features, like battery reporting and multi device pairing, are being arbitrarily restricted by Apple to maintain a proprietary ecosystem.

How you could argue that this is a good thing tells me you're either too drunk on the corporate kool-aid or that you have some financial incentive to ignore the obvious problems with these facts.

Either way this is my last message in this thread as googling things for you is a bore.