Treo Bluetooth Bounty Efforts Unsuccessful

UberGeek28 writes "The development effort pushed by TreoCentral (previously discussed on /. here) seems to have failed. After raising a bounty of $5,812 for the first developer to meet the requirements of a working Bluetooth driver for PalmOS 5.0 with the Treo 600 in mind, no developer has come forward to claim it. The official word has come here. Maybe another effort with wider impact could succeed where this one failed?"

Comments

bluetooth is dead!

[Nyder]

I have this friend who always talks about how bluetooth is the end all, it's so rad, blah, blah, blah. I then asked him to list all the devices he knows that uses it. Just the cell phone he thought about buying. He mistakenly thought that all computers had it, till I corrected him on that.

I personally don't think that bluetooth is ever going to catch on. It's not a bad idea, but no one is actually implementing it in things that could use it, now. LIke the ipod, like my pda's, my mp3 player, any of my wireless items, or any items I have that should be wireless.

am I wrong? It sounds to me like it's just hype. Like all the companies are waiting for the other companies to start putting it in their products. So they wait, and wait instead of implementing and using.

This is just my opinion based on what I see and experience. I personally would love a bluetooth type item so I don't have to bother connecting my pda/mp3/cell phone (can't even back my cell phone up as it is, pissess me off).