Its been a requested feature ever since someone wanted to use 2 wireless headphones with a friend to share music. But no I can pretty much say MOST people will have no interest in it, just as MOST people could care less their music comes out of a shiaty pair of headphones by apple or beats.
And I'm sorry to say but you will need to upgrade your speakers to use the dual audio functionality.. this isn't new. When bluetooth 4.1 LE came out with low power savings for monitoring equipment... it still needed you to buy new devices that supported 4.1 LE as well. No one burned down any buildings when that happen. And how about that 802.11g? It supports 802.11b devices..did we get the pitchforks because it didn't speed up our data despite the router being 802.11g?
I think you're forgetting the year Samsung has had and seriously underestimating the convenience of having multiple speakers connected at the same time. Thats kind of the whole reason Sonos and JBL get the asking price for their speaker systems and have so for some time now. You dont use it, I do very regularly with itunes throughout my home. In this thread alone thats 50% want it 50% dont. Just like people didnt know they wanted wifi calling until it became a thing. I know plenty more people who do the same that I have helped set up for this specific reason. When you add the ability to buy 2 $30 bluetooth speakers vs $300 or more for a JBL system and even more for Sonos I'm pretty sure people will use it quite often. As far as needing to upgrade speakers goes, you may and you very well may not. We'll find out in the next few weeks. But just because you dont want a feature doesnt mean you should underestimate the amount of people who will happily use dual audio.
The author of the article you quoted also seems to agree that this should work with 4.0 devices. Will be interesting to see.
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