Why is Bluetooth so much flakier than USB, WiFi, etc?

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For ~20 years now, basic USB and WiFi connection have been in the category of “mostly expected to work” – you do encounter incompatibilities but it tends to be unusual.

Bluetooth, on the other hand, seems to have been “expected to fail or at least be flaky as hell” since Day 1, and it doesn’t seem to have gotten better over time. What makes the Bluetooth stack/protocol so much more apparently-unstable than other protocols?

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Bluetooth uses the same frequencies as 2.4ghz Wi-Fi so if you’re using both the networks will clash and make the Bluetooth signal flake, Wi-Fi is a stronger signal so it wins over Bluetooth and so it doesn’t degrade as bad. Also the effects of stuttering Bluetooth are going to be more noticeable than stuttering wifi

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