The user above (Mik...) says that Apple told him to get a new car which is nothing short of lunacy, and clearly Mik's "wonder if they help pay for it" comment was understandably sarcastic and quite funny as he expresses "wonder" in a situation where there's not a snowball's chance in **** for wonder. Quite held back if you ask me. But then you responded in a serious manner, as if Mik weren't making a joke. William, you have said very little to acknowledge the legitimacy of arguments against Apple even though they are overwhelming, but any time you have a chance to defend Apple or cast doubt upon all other companies in the world except Apple, there you are, even if doing so requires you to surgically pinpoint technicalities while ignoring the elephant in the room, even if it means taking someone seriously when they were just joking around, and even if it involves immediately agreeing that someone's car is broken even though they didn't share enough details for anyone to make an informed judgment about that.
From what you've said in the past, I understand that Apple adopted new bluetooth standards with their iPhone 11 that have issues with backward compatibility. Considering the thousands of older devices that continue even today to work perfectly fine with everything except the iPhone 11/iOS 13 combo (including working with other devices that are even newer than the iPhone 11), it was evidently an extremely poor decision for Apple to incorporate this faulty technology in a device that people pay $1400 for (at best) or it was evidently implemented poorly in the iPhone 11. Either way it doesn't matter. That is the bottom line here.
Apple deliberately and successfully built their business model around delivering premium quality for premium price. Implied in this business model (necessary for it to work!) are customers who have rightfully high expectations, and whatever isn't perfect should be tiny annoyances at worst, not major problems of basic functionality. If this were a $250 or even $400 phone, this problem might be tolerable in the name of "you get what you pay for." But for a $700 phone it is unacceptable. For a $1000, $1200 or $1500 phone it is unthinkable and either shows extreme incompetency, irresponsibility/pride or downright evil on the part of Apple (take your pick, not sure which is worse). Users here are rightfully disgusted with Apple, so when you keep chiming in to cheerlead for Apple every chance you get, most or all here will be naturally upset as they work hard to document this issue.
The overwhelming theme of this thread is "this or that bluetooth device continues to work with everything except my iPhone 11 and in fact none of my bluetooth devices work with it." You can say whatever you want to try to muddy up the water, but the logic of the situation speaks for itself. If the choice is for either Apple to fix their issue, or for nearly every bluetooth manufacturer on planet Earth to fix their so-called "issues," well that's not even a choice. Apple needs to ante up.
