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Wayyyy at the bottom:

  AirPods Max require Apple devices running iOS 14.3 or later, iPadOS 14.3 or later, macOS Big Sur 11.1 or later, watchOS 7.2 or later, or tvOS 14.3 or later.


Pretty sure that's the "if you want to use them with Apple devices, you need these versions".

For example AirPods Pro require iOS 13.2 or older, but work fine via Bluetooth to all non-Apple hardware.


They work fine on older Apple hardware, as well. The older versions of iOS just don't auto-pair, can't support spatial audio, etc.


Perhaps paranoia on my part but this opens them up to deprecate that support whenever they feel like it.


If they have bluetooth, how do they "deprecate support"?


This is a way to keep the especially ignorant tied into the ecosystem.




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