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Is there any reason to hope things might be finally resolved in the somewhat near future?


I'm not sure, I'm no longer working on products that use BlueTooth. I know that BT pairing has gotten easier and easier over time (improvements to the spec), but the real important parts are the BT stacks and BT chip firmware. From what I understand working with BT Engineers, the best BT stack was from Stonestreet One, who was recently bought up by Qualcomm. If someone had bought them up and open sourced their code, the world of BT would be a much better place right now.


Based on 16 years of the technology never failing to disappoint, none whatsoever.


Well, after 20 years, USB (another specification which aims at making a hundred kinds of different coffees, like about every specification designed in the last 20 years) kind of works nowadays, so there might be a bit of hope. Hmmm wait, except twice a week when I plug USB devices in the 'wrong' order on my computer. Oh well...


On the bleeding edge, the future with reversible connectors is here, with USB-C style connectors (on both ends!) for everything.

'course, now there's a hundred dollars in various adaptors to rebuy...




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