Google's Android is finally going to copy one of the AirPods' handiest tricks: automatic switching between connected devices.
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Wireless is supposed to make things easier, and when it does, it’s great. But it’s actually ended up making things more complicated. Instead of simply unplugging your headphones from your laptop and plugging them into your phone, we now have to re-pair the Bluetooth connection, or at the very least find a control panel to swap it. Now, Google has added Auto Switching to Android and the Pixel Buds Pro, something that AirPods users have enjoyed for years.
“Apple products are designed from the ground up to work seamlessly together, with each piece of hardware carefully designed to complement the software. Android devices, on the other hand, are often built by different manufacturers, each with their own take on the operating system,” Oberon Copeland, technical writer, owner and CEO of the website Very Informed, told Lifewire via email.
"This can lead to a discrepancy between the extent to which hardware and software work together."
