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To: Ausdauer who wrote (18335)	1/19/2001 8:48:16 AM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

I think the problems with bluetooth will be usablity rather than technolgy. The uninitiated will be expected to handle security, replication, archiving and file formats between a number of different objects that move around. You don't want those naked pics of your girlfriend replicating to your neighbours PC just cos u walked within 10 yards of his house. And you don't want your wife being able to find them either lol.

To: Ausdauer who wrote (18335)	1/19/2001 10:38:14 AM
From: John F Beule	Respond to of 60323

Agreed. Until that time comes (if ever), we can focus on what will be the pre-cursor to bluetooth, and that is (as discussed previously) MSFT's .NET rollout and the coming wave of Internet Appliances which are MMC compatible. These rollouts will be crucial to the further development of bluetooth...why? Because if the consumer balks at these current initiatives, we can read about bluetooth as the "great ideas that never got off the ground" which means that all the R&D spent on bluetooth will go down the drain. Bluetooth is a good 10 years out. John