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Rob Enderle Announces Death of Bluetooth
prostoalex writes "Rob Enderle is typing away (perhaps even on his very own Ferrari laptop) at Intel Developer Forum, noting that Intel gave up on IEEE Ultrawideband and decided to switch to Wireless USB derivative. This, in Mr. Enderle's opinion, signifies the end of life for Bluetooth standard, although Enderle calls Bluetooth 'dead' in the title of the article and 'all but dead' in the actual text."
Any one else sick of this asshole? I'd tell him where to stick his Farrari laptop and BSD-like predictions...
USB would not exist if Apple didnt help it along... its as SIMPLE as that. I remeber all of the PC freaks spouting off about why does it have USB what the hell is that blah blah blah when they first saw it... and guess what.... 3 years later you where hard pressed to find anything NOT using USB.
And since Windows 98 didnt get USB support till late in the game (well after Apple put out the iMac, their first USB computer) then the fact is Apple pushed it along, it adopted the standard and people followed suit just like many PC makers are finally dumping the useless floppy disk.
And since you are so delusional to think that USB replace SCSI... name me a high speed harddrive using USB.... name me a Superdrive using USB that equals the speed of scsi.... guess what YOU CANT SHITHEAD....
Maybe your peice of shit eMachine might not use it but REAL computer users... you know the ones who dont spend 4000 on a fucking gaming computer instead of being smart and buying a xBox or PS 2 and saving the 3700 for games use it. The ones whos computer earns them a living and not searching the web for the Paris Hilton video use it....
go back to playing video games moron and stop wasting our time thinking you know shit.
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The main problem is that, while Bluetooth may have been in technical news since 1997, it has yet to catch in where it counts: Joe Sixpack.
Meanwhile Wireless-A, -B, and -G have all zipped by technical board rooms and appeared on store shelves at Wal-Mart 2-3 years ago.
Who cares if your new Verizon Wireless phone has "Bluetooth wireless" capability written on its box? Joe Sixpack has never heard of it, and probably doesn't care to find out. He already has seen "wireless" at Wal-Mart, and to him it's "teh old".
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