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To: df who wrote (885)	4/17/2002 11:41:52 AM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Respond to of 932

I agree it's not dead, but it's wounded and IMHO{} even if it gets a better version #2 it will be too late in coming. Bluetooth's been out what, 2 years now? And how many time a day/week/month do you use it for any practical (or any) purpose? For most people, even among those that are excited about it, the answer is zero -- wherein lies the problem. - Charles {} and in this case, at least, it really is humble -- I'm not a Bluetooth expert, but it's gotten some discouraging press.

To: df who wrote (885)	4/17/2002 1:56:19 PM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 932

The article (only excerpted below) ends optimistically, but not very. The bigger questions is the extent to which SCKT soared to 50 because of the irrationality of the period, or because it's a pump with more hype than substance. It certainly seems to have real and admired products, so this is no scam -- but it also remains a really tiny company in a marginal market and doesn't make money. - Charles oreillynet.com A discussion today on O'Reilly's editors list considered why Bluetooth has failed to take root year after year. I agreed with the camp that thought it was largely a failure of marketing (specifically, trying to market itself against 802.11b), and also that there has been a sort of chicken-and-egg problem, where Bluetooth in one gadget doesn't get you much; its power shows when it gets into all your gadgets. This is pretty different from 802.11b, where if you shell out for a wireless PC card, you're admitted to a glorious world of wireless networks in offices, conventions, airports and -- according to Cory Doctorow -- enough insecure and community-spirited wireless networks to give seamless coverage in a cab riding through Manhattan. But I'm an optimist, so I visited the Bluetooth Developers Conference at Moscone in San Francisco on Wednesday. Attendance was respectable; not as mobbed as last December's show in San Jose, but a whole lot more energy than the ghost town I walked into at the Annual Linux Showcase in Oakland last month. It was a lot like last year's show, right down to the demos of cool projects that one could be pretty sure aren't going to show up anytime soon: a Bluetooh-enabled pen that is also a camera (!), thumb-sized Bluetooth radios that plug into the USB port. And three times at three different booths, I saw the same demo: using a Bluetooth connection between a laptop and a mobile phone to use the phone as a modem that connects the laptop to the Internet. At 14 Kbps. Pretty unimpressive, and only slightly less so when you imagine it happening at GPRS speeds -- 40 Kbps realistically. Hardly a killer app to demo at shows

To: df who wrote (885)	5/13/2003 11:59:32 AM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Respond to of 932

Regarding the thread about Bluetooth being dead SCKT is still a tiny company -- probably never justify a tenth of the wild valuation it acheieved in the good old days of month or so around 2000. - Charles =========== BLUETOOTH REMAINS OBSCURE Several years ago many made grand predictions about Bluetooth, but today the wireless technology remains relatively obscure to most users. While sales of Wi-Fi technology have grown significantly--242 percent last year, according to one group--consumers have not flocked to Bluetooth the way many had forecast. Michael McCamon of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group compared the two by calling Bluetooth a Swiss Army knife, which does many different things, and Wi-Fi a steak knife, which only does one thing but does it very well. McCamon touted the versatility of Bluetooth, which is intended to connect a wide range of devices, such as computers, cell phones, personal organizers, or even appliances, allowing them to share data quickly and easily. Washington Post, 11 May 2003 washingtonpost.com