Oh come on don't be close minded. Who needs a 3-position speed switch when in the other hand you can hold your phone, swipe to the Home Screen, open the app, and drag a speed control. Imagine the possibilities of being able to remotely turn on the hair dryer while lying in bed. What if you're on the toilet at work and suddenly realised oh darn, I left my hair dryer on its hottest setting - you can turn it back down so next time you use it it's not still on the wrong heat. Most importantly, imagine being able to change the colour of the power LED on the hair dryer. Mate, the future is now!
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iOS 18 Expands Convenient AirPods-Like Pairing to More Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Accessories
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Then you might be interested in this bluetooth-enabled head polishing cloth, new from Apple.I don't need a smart or dumb hairdryer. I am bald.
I wonder if this will extend to an AirPods-like seamless switching experience for 3rd party headphones. I'm not holding my breath but it's all that's missing in the Sony WH1000XM5's and a lot of other great non-Apple headphones and earbuds.
Yep, Apple's approach to Bluetooth is utter insanity. They actually REMOVED some of the higher quality codecs from macOS FFS.
I have Denon Perl Pro's, and had to buy a USB dongle to get higher quality aptX Bluetooth codecs on my MBP.
FYI, the dongle is a Creative BT-W5
- Bluetooth 5.3 (50 m range)
- SBC, aptX, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive (HQ + LL)
I don't think it supports LDAC, nor aptX Lossless, unfortunately, but maybe there are other dongles that do? aptX Adaptive is pretty damn decent though.
Huh, that's weird. My Denon Perl Pro's pair to both my MBP and Pixel phone waaaaay better than my airpods do!!!I actually would really enjoy being able to pair all my wireless headphones this easily.
The Denon's automatically pair to both devices simultaneously. There's not device switching required. If music is playing on one device, and I play something on the other device, then the music automatically pauses on the first device, and audio through the earbuds simply plays from the second device.
My AirPods couldn't do that when I had my iPhone. I was blown away when I bought these Denon's and realised just how bad Apple's implementation of pairing was in comparison.
