There was a recent, highly upvoted article about the pains of Bluetooth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162131 Summarizing only a tiny fraction of the complaints: – Connecting can make devices do weird stuff (play default songs, etc.)
– Pairing multiple devices leads to unpredictable behavior (random switching, switching when you don’t mean to)
– Can’t connect multiple headsets to one device (why do my wife and I need to share earbuds watching a movie on a plane?)
– Can’t connect multiple devices to one headset (why can’t I listen to music on my computer but still get calls from my phone?)
– … Why don’t we have something better already? I’m sure the area spans a number of different fields/challenges. Standardization, security, adoption, regulation. Are there ongoing efforts to create a new protocol that solves for the problems so apparent with Bluetooth? Are there specific (seemingly) insurmountable roadblocks to improving the status quo? Asking from pure curiosity. And because I spent 5 minutes getting something to correctly pair this morning.
Story Published at: August 15, 2022 at 03:18PM
– Pairing multiple devices leads to unpredictable behavior (random switching, switching when you don’t mean to)
– Can’t connect multiple headsets to one device (why do my wife and I need to share earbuds watching a movie on a plane?)
– Can’t connect multiple devices to one headset (why can’t I listen to music on my computer but still get calls from my phone?)
– … Why don’t we have something better already? I’m sure the area spans a number of different fields/challenges. Standardization, security, adoption, regulation. Are there ongoing efforts to create a new protocol that solves for the problems so apparent with Bluetooth? Are there specific (seemingly) insurmountable roadblocks to improving the status quo? Asking from pure curiosity. And because I spent 5 minutes getting something to correctly pair this morning.
Story Published at: August 15, 2022 at 03:18PM