NEWS : Bluetooth is dead

[btooth]

By Craig J. Mathias
EE Times
October 13, 2003 (10:59 a.m. ET)

There, I've said it. I feel better already. I've been thinking along these lines for more than three years, but that's the first time I've made it public. I'm very rarely inclined to trash such major efforts, but the jury's back, and really has been for a while. Bluetooth is toast, finished, over. Stick a fork in it. It's done.
I take no pleasure in the above. I first saw Bluetooth in 1997, when it was called MC Link. It was cool: RF IrDA. Self-organizing mesh networking. Low cost. Universal acceptance. Cheap. But while the Bluetooth community was merrily building the vision (and, occasionally, products), the rest of the world was progressing with significantly greater effectiveness. 802.11 got cheap, too, and much faster. Bluetooth access points were superseded by Wi-Fi rollouts, now moving toward ubiquity in major population centers. Cellular handsets-the natural homeland of Bluetooth-will soon be hosting 8
02.11 radios.

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