[HN Gopher] Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods
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Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods
Author : frankfrank13
Score : 15 points
Date : 2022-06-30 22:20 UTC (39 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (support.logi.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (support.logi.com)
| frankfrank13 wrote:
| If you buy a bluetooth mouse (and seemingly keyboard) from a
| company known for their bluetooth peripherals they will not be
| compatible with the single most popular peripheral in the world.
| I'm shocked this has gone on this long.
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| To summarize: If you use a Logitech bluetooth device, it creates
| enough interference that high-bandwidth products like the Airpods
| will not function correctly.
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| If you switch the Logitech device to use their "unifying"
| adapter, which doesn't use bluetooth but a different proprietary
| wireless protocol, the problem goes away.
|
| Logitech acknowledged the problem about six months ago but thus
| far have deflected any further questions about a fix.
| altairprime wrote:
| They may have legal liability for causing undue interference,
| and thus may be advised not to discuss it with the public; or
| they might just be pretending not to care, since Logitech tends
| to be bottom of the barrel in hardware this decade.
|
| I encourage _only_ US owners of both the defective Logitech
| products _and_ of AirPods, to write a complaint to the FCC
| reporting the problem as you experience it and asking the FCC
| to respond.
|
| https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new
|
| (Interference; Unlicensed.)
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