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- Why is bluetooth so consistently buggy? Unless you're using the exact bluetooth headphones made for that device, I find myself needing to connect/reconnect or debug so often.

- Why don't TVs still have physical buttons? Sometimes the remote batteries die or I can't find it. Just let me turn things off or adjust volume.

- Why isn't there a sliding toggle "checkbox" in HTML? Why do I have to abuse a checkbox to get one?

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The more you know about the Bluetooth Classic spec and the Bluetooth “Special Interest Group”… the more it all makes sense.

I read the v4 spec many moons ago. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s that it tries to define everything rather than stop at a sensible place and let others quibble over the standards.

The price of embedded systems really.

To your last point; because it should be a touch specific interface but it's abused as a checkbox on desktop by designers. Mobile app platforms have this natively but HTML is supposed to be platform independent.

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