Beacon Ranging Problem in 10?

July 2017

Waisted almost a week of evenings on this tech. Very disappointed. Spend $100 on estimote ibeacons; which I think I am going to return!! region monitoring works, but ranging is shot!! fires once and then dies!! Very angry!!

We have wasted a lot more than a week and $100 and I'm exactly as angry. But it works perfectly on Android phones every time (the ones that it works on, there are a few that are woeful at BLE, but that's a manufacturer thing naturally, just like this issue with Apple is)

The crux of the matter is that there's long standing issues here, and to admit to them would be too expensive for Apple.

It is likely they will never address this and simple force developers to find a way around it. We unexplainable issues from 5 right up to 6S, including SE (as it's closer to a 5S than a 6S, save for the processor/preprocessor).

The worst part is working with clients who have that wide-eyed "Apple is premium price, therefore premium quality" attitude - we say "the bluetooth adapter simply stopped seeing beacons" and they say "you obviously have an issue with your code, fix it". Anyone who has done anything beacon related knows that you cannot do anything more than react the hits, and when the hits stop coming, you don't know if it's legit or that the hardware has just failed yet again.

It's kind of funny and clever for them to let developers take the hit for their fails, it would do devastating things to their brand.

Still, I have a £29 vodafone phone running Android 6, and it performs better than an iPhone 6S! This at least confuses the clients, who then make excuses for Apple, because, come on, it's Apple!