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To: Steve 667 who wrote (18330)	1/19/2001 3:48:06 AM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Bluetooth will complement flash, but don't think it will go away cos it won't

To: Steve 667 who wrote (18330)	1/19/2001 12:14:56 PM
From: Bargain Hunter	Respond to of 60323

Steve, I agree with your assessment that Bluetooth will not reduce the demand for flash memory. In fact I believe that it will increase it by encouraging a wider array of devices that are intermittently connected and require storage for the rest of the time. But I find your comparison to Iridium and Globalstar hard to understand. Iridium and Globalstar were monolithic systems that required huge up-front investment in global systems and foundered because the companies then failed to attract the large numbers of subscribers needed to recoup the investment. Bluetooth is much more like Ethernet: individual users can just buy Bluetooth-enabled devices and use them together as they wish. Initially there will be bugs that make some of the more grandiose predicted uses unworkable. But simpler things like laptop and PDA to cellphone connectivity are very real and will start to become cost-effective later this year. More complex interactions involving public Bluetooth servers will probably take quite a lot longer.