Google Android Bluetooth Pairing Experience

Google Android Bluetooth Pairing Experience

While Fast Pairing is making strides to improve the Bluetooth pairing experience, it is still not a reality on most modern headphones.

This years event, held back in June, was a historic one and not just because it was held entirely online.

Amongst the expected and not-so-expected updates, there was one major takeaway: by transitioning full-blown MacBooks to Apples own silicon, we can finally see the culmination of a decades work to synergize an ecosystem that other companies can only dream of.

Ive been a Mac user for over a decade and have always been impressed by how well Apples products integrate with the operating system, going all the way back to the venerable iPod.

Apples singular vision is driving it forward in ways Google just cant compete with at the moment.

Googles approach towards hardware has at best been lackadaisical and at worst lacked any overarching vision or direction.

The result has been individually brilliant products that dont always work together in any meaningful way.

In the face of Apples latest power play and with several new Made by Google products seemingly on the horizon, that needs to change.

Its all about the ecosystem and customer lock-in It is no secret that Apple has been building towards a completely unified ecosystem; a broader gamut of products that are aimed to reduce friction for a consumer.

There is no first-party equivalent for the synergy between Apples different product lines.

Sidecar increases productivity by making the iPad a powerful second screen.

The ability to quickly scribble a signature on your iPad and immediately insert it into a document on your Mac is the kind of stuff that simply isnt possible across Googles products.

This year the iPad will even get the extremely powerful Spotlight search feature from macOS.

The iPad app store is full of high-quality apps that often have no equivalent at all on Android.

From music creation to games to code editors, the reality is that the iPad is powerful and versatile enough to become a true laptop replacement for a large customer subset.

Read more: 5 features the Google Play Store should steal from the iOS App Store right now Meanwhile, Googles efforts to support the Android tablet market are non-existent.

The number of tablet-optimized apps on the Play Store is woeful and more often than not users are left with blown-up phone apps.

Samsung has tried its best finagle the most it can out of Android on its Galaxy Tab series, but it is still a sub-optimal experience and not one that is consistent across the broader portfolio of Samsung devices.

Editors Pick Five years of Wear OS and its still too messy to recommend Today is the fifth anniversary of the release of Wear OS.

Born as Android Wear, Wear OS is Googles Android-based operating system specifically designed to work on wearables and smartwatches.

After five years of development and refinement, The lack of cohesion between Android tablets and the broader Google-designed ecosystem is reflected across other products too.

Be it the lack of general refinement, minimal enhancements, woeful battery life even on the latest hardware, or simply the lack of a flagship product from Google itself, Wear OS pales in comparison to the feature-set of Watch OS for the Apple Watch or even Samsungs Tizen-based Galaxy Watch lineup.

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