On: Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big th...

[wrboyce]

You can think of the AirPods being paired to your iCloud account, and connecting to any authenticated devices is generally seamless and very quick.

[damnyou → wrboyce]

So, not seamless if you use Android, Windows, Linux, a Mac laptop and an iPad like I do.

[wrboyce → damnyou]

It would be seamless between the Mac and iPad… I'm unsure how you would expect Apple to achieve it on devices they do not control though?

[damnyou → wrboyce]

Create a standard. Release it as royalty free. Contribute implementations to open source.

The way it's been done for decades.