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AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

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1424 points moonleay | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 00:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.383s | source
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moonleay ◴[16 Nov 25 00:02 UTC] No.45941605[source]▶
A cool project, when you want to use AirPods outside of Apples ecosystem. Sadly, you have to use a rooted android device with a small patch due to a bug in the Android Bluetooth implementation. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/371713238
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cbsks ◴[16 Nov 25 01:52 UTC] No.45942063[source]▶
That is such a typical bug report to a large company. A user who spent a lot of time debugging and finding the root cause of an issue, and a few faceless peons at the large company spending a few minutes on it, realizing it’s not a priority, and abandoning it.
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netsharc ◴[16 Nov 25 02:15 UTC] No.45942183[source]▶
Ah, when "open source" means begging an advertisement company to bless your code changes...
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1. Aurornis ◴[16 Nov 25 05:39 UTC] No.45943040[source]▶
Not really. There wasn’t a true patch attempt submitted, as far as I can see. There was some helpful info about how commenting out a couple lines could work around the issue, but doing a real engineering evaluation to check spec compliance and make sure it’s all covered in the Bluetooth testing infrastructure is a much bigger task.