Response to the Demise of Bluetooth in the Sun Telegraph
"Rumours of my death have been greatly exagerated.
-Bluetooth"
Blue tooth technologies were developed to give freedom to keyboard, mouse and headphones.
None of these devices really has a useful distance greater than the 10 meters called for in the specification. Because of the happy joy joy feeling that arose over Bluetooth's updated speed of 3 Mbps, some printer manufactures such as HP included it in their printing technologies to support handheld PCs and mobile phones, but it was so horribly slow that it was never a widely sought after function, especially in the days of Email and PDF.
The likelihood that a fairly ubiquitous technology for mice and headsets would be replaced by the new wifie is unlikely in the short term. Manufacturing and marketing issues will act against widespread adoption. It will take someone like Apple or Dell to incorporate the technologies into their computer platform, much like USB and Bluetooth were done by Apple in the late 90s.
Mike Rowland
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