Yup. Unfortunately every other Bluetooth headphones suck when it comes to connectivity and stable playing. Been using Airpods Max for a year and never had a connection issue.
edit: isolation replaced with canceling
Two things:
1. Long hair. If your hair is in the way, you have to brush it away before the sensors will correctly register your input.
2. Beanies. If you wear an acrylic beanie (due to the aforementioned long hair), there is enough capacitance detected in contact with the material to generate spurious, and unwanted, inputs.
Tactile buttons would solve both of these issues.
I have literally zero problems with these: https://www.amazon.com/AfterShokz-Open-Ear-Wireless-Conducti...
They work everywhere - across my phone, laptop, personal laptop, hell - even my nvidia shield tv. Across Win/Linux/macOS/Android/iOS.
Connect just fine - play just fine. Reconnect just fine. Pair just fine.
I'm glad you like the Airpods, but damn is this some crazy bullshit thing to be claiming.
I also don’t have to decipher beeps to change settings. I can change anything about them visually from any of my devices.
I won't be buying any more Apple headphones after my current Airpods Pro dies (already quite unreliable charging in the case, so unless I check and place it down gently I'm likely to come back and find it out of battery from one of the earpieces having been on the whole time).
I only stuck with airpods this long because their bluetooth functionality really is great especially when I was in a little apartment with an Apple TV as well as my phone. But they're really disappointingly unreliable, badly overpriced, and Apple support around them is always terrible (in my experience in the UK).