Why won't my iPhone 4 connect with my Mac Book Pro?

My Mac Book can see my iPhone, but cannot connect to it.  Also, my bluebud x Jaybirds work fine with my iPhone 4, but are not seen by my Mac Book.

Well snozdop as you can see, I am new around here.  In most online forums you can "bump" an old thread and get new responses, rather than making a whole new thread about the same question.
So I was hoping by pointing out the fact that Panicazi (who seems to have to deleted his profile, maybe because of people like you) said that "This solved my question" when in fact it didn't, because you asked...
"For what purpose are you trying to connect the iPhone to the Mac via Bluetooth?"
and then said
"Apple have never said "why" their implementation of Bluetooth is the way it is.
However, there are over 20 different Bluetooth profiles - not every device supports, or needs to support every profile. Some Bluetooth profiles would be useless on some Bluetooth devices.
File transfers over Bluetooth are slow. For the multi-gigabytes media files an iPhone it would be impractical for file transfers. USB 2 is many times faster."
didn't answer why his "...Mac Book can see my iPhone, but cannot connect to it..."  or the rest of his question; someone might respond with an answer, rather than a rude comment.
-TH
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