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Bluetooth Receiver TaoTronics Hands Free Cancelling
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
>The OS has special case Airpod code. How would another manufacturer replicate this? I don't think they could without Apple's ecosystem.
They could if Apple would license out the W1 chip, or even sell dongles with W1 functionality that convert the 3.5mm jacks in headphones into bluetooth (like one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Receiver-TaoTronics-Hands-F...).
Of course they never will, but a man can dream.