Seriously. Getting bluetooth devices to sync is still hit and miss with many devices. Bluetooth was introduced in 1998. They’ve had over a decade to get this right, and in many cases bluetooth driver stacks and synchronization setup are STILL ridiculously complex. Why?
I have never known them to be complex, set both to broadcast and enter the same password on each
I’m with the OP - anything I try to sync with my computer is a pain in the butt.
I just bought a headset for my iPhone, though, and it synced fine, and have had no problems with it.
Maybe it’s just the computer based stuff? Both with Mac and PC, the bluetooth stuff syncing is hit and miss, and it has to be redone every time I want to use it.
I expect for the same reason that computer printing is still hit or miss after 30 years. (The paper size can be different from the actual paper? Really? You’re cutting off the edges of printed web pages rather than reflowing? You still have to ASK for all the print settings rather than just intuiting them from the paper and data combination?)-- it’s a connection where the two ends of the connection are owned by different parties with different goals, and there’s never been enough incentive to really sit down and solve the problem.
My wife’s Palm Treo would not sync with her Toyota Rav4’s built-in hands-free system no matter what. We eventually learned that they had two incompatible Bluetooth formats, whatever that means.
Later she got a Blackberry and that synced to the Rav4 with no problems at all.