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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Kim who wrote (18337)	1/19/2001 3:42:49 PM
From: Steve 667	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Bluetooth is not even close to disruptive technology for Flash Memory. I think just about everyone is ignoring the obvious here. Bluetooth itself is just the link that turns the wire into invisible waves that will travel 20 feet or so. That is not the stumbling block. What makes it impractical is the interface to go from one device to another. For example this silly idea of your camera sending pictures to your PC. Sending and receiving is the Bluetooth technology. Somewhat but not prohibitively costly. What make this thing impractical is the interface to the Bluetooth. Think about it. How are you going to tell your camera which pictures to send, to what drive or directory to send it to? When to start, what to do if there is a problem, does it erase the pictures once they are sent. Come on now. This is a whole system within itself that has to be make and customized for every single individual camera model, computer model, refrigerator, cell phone model and on and on. And don't forget the bugs if they get bill gates to help out. And are you going to trust your valued once in a lifetime photos of your naked girlfriend on a system that can fail in so many different places? Your are on vacation. So what if the computer at your vacation location fails. What if their isp fails, what if your isp back home hangs up, rolling blackouts in California, your hard disk back home, and on and on and you will never get that perfect naked picture of her ever again because she left you for the guy with all the money that he made in Sandisk stock, while you are Bluetoothless and penniless. Think about it. Think about her. Who you gonna trust? Flash or a flash in the pan. Flash memory and Bluetooth - Apples and oranges Steve 667