While I’ve never gone out and bought a heap of Bluetooth devices I have followed it’s original marketing push followed by it’s subsequent retreat into obscurity. I also know a number of Uni students who did (or are doing) their Thesis project’s on the Bluetooth standard. SO, I was interested to read the following Slashdot article:
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Rob Enderle Announces Death of Bluetooth ||
from the we-hardly-knew-ye dept. ||
posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 20, @00:25 (intel) ||
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/20/0417247 |+——————————————————————–+
[0]prostoalex writes “[1]Rob Enderle is typing away (perhaps even on[2]his very own Ferrari laptop) at [3]Intel Developer Forum, noting thatIntel gave up on IEEE Ultrawideband and decided to switch to Wireless USBderivative. This, in Mr. Enderle’s opinion, [4]signifies the end of lifefor Bluetooth standard, although Enderle calls Bluetooth ‘dead’ in thetitle of the article and ‘all but dead’ in the actual text.”
Discuss this story at: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/02/20/0417247
Links:
0. http://www.techinterviews.com
1. http://www.enderlegroup.com/
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/10/2042202&tid=133
3. http://intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idfspr_2004/
4. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20040219/tc_zd/119654
So I guess the question HAS to be asked. IS HE right?
Stuart