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Originally posted by Mother
All this makes me state: BlueTooth sucks. At least in it's current state of development. The manufacturers are being stupid distributing buggy and defective products, most of which are likely not firmware-upgradeable - this will create a consumer base largely peed off at BlueTooth in general, who will have spent their money in bad products, and will not fork out more money to buy new ones with the problems fixed.
Nice idea, poorly implemented, like a lot of nice ideas. A large part of the problem I think is that each manufacturer "interprets" the BlueTooth standard to his own liking, which makes it non-interoperable, the most basic aim of the technology.
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I will have to agree with you on all points thus far.. I installed the d-link adaptor on my ibook along with Apple's Bluetooth Preview 2 drivers. I also installed the Tecom usb adaptor on my winxp box. The Tecom drivers installed just fine on my XP box - no problems so far with them. But, only after a lot of fiddling around with the Apple drivers was I able to finally get both devices to *see* each other.
But that's all they can do - see eachother. I try to xfer files and get an error. Also, I am trying to code a Bluetooth stumbler for OS X and the actual IOBluetooth framework is incomplete.
I think there is hope though. I hear Microsoft will be supporting bluetooth later this year when they start offering their bluetooth keyboards and mice. On the Mac OS X side of things, I think that the Jaguar release will offer better/complete drivers (instead of these 'preview' drivers).
So, while I think that things suck now, I'm pretty confident that they will get better in a matter of 2-3 months (maybe sooner?).
And yes, maybe this should go in off-topic. Although, maybe netstumbler should create a bluetooth forum?
-Cpt'n