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>I completely disagree with this. It isn’t magic at all. Mine hardly ever work this smooth.

Mine always work perfectly.

Now, if you were on the iPhone, and you want to use them on the Mac, with the iPhone still nearby connected to them, I'm not sure what you'd expect. For them to magically guess your intention?

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My Bose QC35s do this very well. They connect to both my iPhone and MacBook via Bluetooth, and if I am listening to a podcast on my iPhone, and get a WebEx/Slack/Etc call on my MacBook, I pause the podcast and answer the call, and it switches between the two seamlessly -- I don't need to do anything.

Any device playing audio could recognise that it knows that set of airpods and connect seamlessly. Obviously if both devices are playing then it'll always be the one that started playing last that gets the airpods, but I think that's both a rare case and mostly in line with typical user expectation when it does happen.

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