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Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

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Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

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Post by cnity »

SilasX wrote: post #583
cnity wrote: post #574

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I think it's a good question. > Seemed like a pretty direct statement of the facts of their case That's exactly what tickled me. He could have just said "My car keeps playing the same album when I adjust the console" but chose to focus on elements of the story that are vivid. He let the funny aspects of the situation shine through specifically _because_ he picked interesting elements to state directly. Anyway, I don'…

Are we taking about the same comment? We’re taking about one that mentions an alarm, not an album. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163781 And yes, I get that it rutina the fun to break down the logic too much, but you specifically complimented a style, and claimed the persona generally “had a gift” when there was no obVious style that made the comment funny, just the fact of the alarm being long obsolete for i…

You have a gift for writing pedantically

Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

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Post by darthrupert »

nostromo wrote: post #504
darthrupert wrote: post #359

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An Apple problem. Their car connectivity follows the idea that configuration is evil and there's only one way to do a thing.

This isn't correct. Apple Car Play does not play anything automatically on start. It's the Lexus that is telling the device to begin playing music. If you don't use Apple Music, it'll pick the only album you have -- which for many people is the U2 album Apple added to everyone's library for free many years ago.

I stand corrected but also want to note that I've seen many car models do this.

Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

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Post by rapjr9 »

I do not know if this is true, but I read somewhere long ago that Bluetooth was intentionally designed to be complex to create a high barrier to entry for companies implementing wireless data, particularly in the phone industry but perhaps to make things like peer-to-peer protocols difficult to implement reliably also. ANT+ is certainly much easier to use and more stable. The Bluetooth spec in its entirety is up to what now, 3000-5000 pages? Do you have a year to read it and understand it before starting your project? And all the Bluetooth vendors have created their own custom stacks with incompatible API's "designed to make using Bluetooth easier" but also ensuring that it is difficult to switch vendors and making it difficult to do anything custom (first you have to reverse engineer their API, then guess what is inside their proprietary firmware stack). I've heard the same things about the SD card standard.

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Post by yakak »

focusedone wrote: post #273
jefe_ wrote: post #185

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Similar thing would happen in my Toyota, the song 'Afraid' by Yellowcard would play every time I turned on the car. Realized it was playing the first song in my library. In Apple Music there is a song called 'A a a a a Very Good Song (Silent Track)' by artist Samir Mezrahi, that contains 10 minutes of silence. I added that to my library and now that song plays when I turn on my car (although this autoplay only happen…

Modern problems require modern solutions. Nice work.

Modem problems require AT solutions, but I guess I need a font problem solution.

Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

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Post by webinvest »

blackhaz wrote: post #91

My car (Lexus) and my iPhone X: The car detects iPhone presence, like, 50% of the time. If it does detect it, it shows me a couple of half-naked shaved guys hugging each other and begins playing "Songs of Innocence" the moment I turn the ignition on. I tried deleting this song from the iPhone, but it auto-magically restores itself somehow, as if it is in the telephone's firmware. The image of men hugging in shade is…

Buy or load a $0.99 silent song that starts with the letter A and you won’t have this problem any more.

Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

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Post by hombre_fatal »

vlachen wrote: post #511
hombre_fatal wrote: post #387

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I've gone through a few different high-end bluetooth buds from Jabra to Sony. I keep coming back to my Airpods, something that was gifted to me a year ago, when the other ones break. Most recently, one of my Jabra Elite buds plays audio at 50% volume from one ear 50% of the time. Not a fan of the tap interface nor the shape of the things nor the need to use a rubber condom (that doesn't fit in the case so I have to r…

Just a note: I had faltering volume on my Jabra Elite earbuds and I found an unauthorized repair [0] that brought it back to life. It requires some delicate cleaning of build up in the vent hole. [1] https://crt.the-mori.com/2020-09-25-solve-jabra-elite-active... >

Thanks, I will try that. I wouldn't be surprised if my ear gunk liquefied into them and then crystallized deep inside the inner sanctums.

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Post by hombre_fatal »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #488
hombre_fatal wrote: post #398

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There is a "Free Airport Wifi" WAP saved on my phone from Mexico City since my iPhone 6. It is long deleted, but it has migrated through the years to my current iPhone 13. Its residue is left on my phone in only this way: Whenever I connect to a new wifi point, after typing in the password, my phone will say it cannot connect to "Free Airport Wifi". I have to type the password in again (usually one someone just read…

I have a similar phenomenon with an exchange account. It's connected to Outlook and everything is working. But sometimes my iPhone X randomly asks me for credentials, doesn't let me input credentials, and then goes away and everything keeps working.

Yeah, something like that happens to me a few times per year. Makes me wonder if I'm being pwned, but only after my pavlov response fills in my creds.

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Post by void-pointer »

jefe_ wrote: post #185
blackhaz wrote: post #91

My car (Lexus) and my iPhone X: The car detects iPhone presence, like, 50% of the time. If it does detect it, it shows me a couple of half-naked shaved guys hugging each other and begins playing "Songs of Innocence" the moment I turn the ignition on. I tried deleting this song from the iPhone, but it auto-magically restores itself somehow, as if it is in the telephone's firmware. The image of men hugging in shade is…

Similar thing would happen in my Toyota, the song 'Afraid' by Yellowcard would play every time I turned on the car. Realized it was playing the first song in my library. In Apple Music there is a song called 'A a a a a Very Good Song (Silent Track)' by artist Samir Mezrahi, that contains 10 minutes of silence. I added that to my library and now that song plays when I turn on my car (although this autoplay only happen…

My dad added the song to the library, but it didn’t work, because he has a song called “A” [1] in his library and that one takes priority. It’s a family in-joke now.

[1] https://music.apple.com/gb/album/a/1316144097?i=1316144100

Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

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Post by gfrff »

Aeolun wrote: post #556
emrvb wrote: post #164

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Bose and improved sound quality in one sentence?

We’re also comparing it to cheap MPow. That’s already a bargain brand, I can’t imagine what cheap means in that context. The bluetooth controller may well be the most expensive part of the headset.

MPow does a surprisingly good job, at least for headsets. Most of this stuff doesn't cost a lot of money, just thoughtful engineering.
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