According to this article, Bluetooth is dead. Now, let’s forget for a moment that nearly everyone has been saying this since the birth of Bluetooth. Let’s ignore the fact that the author of the article is jumping on the Bluetooth-is-dead-bandwagon a little late in the game. Here’s the intro paragraph to Rob Enderle’s article:
“At the Intel Developer Forum on Wednesday Intel announced the company was giving up on the deadlocked Ultrawideband IEEE task group and going it alone with a derivative offering they are calling Wireless USB. This initiative, for them, does everything that Bluetooth does and, effectively means that for PCs Bluetooth is all but dead.”
Now, the problem and the big blind spot in his assessment of this situation is easily visible in the above quoted section. His focus is on the PC, more specifically on Intel and what technologies they intend to support. However, Bluetooth is bigger than that, it is a mobile and device driven technology, that has just recently been taking leaps and strides. As long as all the crazy Bluetooth-capable devices continue to flood the market, even if Intel stops supporting Bluetooth, it merely would mean that more people would be buying bluetooth dongles or adaptors for their computers (if they even need their devices to communicate with their computers).
I mean, they have Bluetooth-capable cars now . . . Do you really think that in America, land of the cars, that that means that Bluetooth is dead?!
Anyway, saw the above article on /. and just felt like ranting a bit…
