On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 12:20 -0700, YES NOPE9 wrote:
> What do folks think of these two newly announced vaporware  
> technologies ?
> 
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173699/wifi_direct_could_be_the_death_of_bluetooth.html
> 
> http://www.ti.com/ww/en/analog/bluetooth/index.htm

I'm not sure why you'd call them vapourware?

While Bluetooth is IMHO complete crap, for when it does work it does the
job. Enabling faster file transfer can only be a good thing.

As for the low power bluetooth proposed, I am a little more sceptical.
While it's a "good idear", I'm not sure how much legs it will have due
to the crappiness of nearly every bluetooth stack out there.

I suppose we shall see.

TTYL

<rant>
PS. Bluetooth is one of those technologies that has been destroyed by
crap software. So much of the promise Bluetooth held has been lost due
to incompatibilities. As evidence of this remember how limited the
iPhone support for Bluetooth was initially? Apple knew that offering
more would just result in many "not working" support calls.

To this day, I don't have a Bluetooth connection that "just works".
Every one I've tried has it's "oddities", from the handfree connection
between my phone and my GPS (it asks for permission to download the
phone contacts EVERY TIME it connects) to my mouse which every once in a
while forgets it's association with my laptop. File transfer between
devices is always a nightmare (my brother and I spent a fruitless 30
minutes trying to transfer one file to my aunt's cell phone from either
his cell or mine).
</rant>


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