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To avoid paying the huge fees it would take to reserve a decent radio channel for Bluetooth, they got it approved by the FCC by making it insanely weak, in a band that doesn't penetrate things very well. To make it usable despite the tiny power limits and awful frequency band, they added a fuckton of error correction and set their standards for quality extremely low.
Bluetooth was never meant for anything better than phone call level audio quality, the fact you can get any audio that doesn't sound like an AM radio station through it is amazing. Any tiny amount of interference in that band makes Bluetooth useless. Literally, just being in a room with a bunch of milkcrate Bitcoin miners will probably jam it.
To avoid paying the huge fees it would take to reserve a decent radio channel for Bluetooth, they got it approved by the FCC by making it insanely weak, in a band that doesn't penetrate things very well. To make it usable despite the tiny power limits and awful frequency band, they added a fuckton of error correction and set their standards for quality extremely low.
Bluetooth was never meant for anything better than phone call level audio quality, the fact you can get any audio that doesn't sound like an AM radio station through it is amazing. Any tiny amount of interference in that band makes Bluetooth useless. Literally, just being in a room with a bunch of milkcrate Bitcoin miners will probably jam it.