iPhone Opens Up Bluetooth For Data

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 11, 2010 @10:49AM from the slowly-but-surly dept.

WildNahviss writes "Apple has loosened its tight grip on the iPhone and allowed a third party to develop a health device that exchanges data with the iPhone and their hardware. Is this the start of a trend for Apple that will relax constraints on non-audio Bluetooth use, or is this an exception? Does anyone know of any other devices for the iPhone that allows non-audio Bluetooth transmission of data?" Reader climenole points out an article about another health-sensor system, dubbed a "body area network," that is built to work with Android devices, but not via Bluetooth.

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Slaves! by tqk · 2010-10-11 15:33 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Ho. Ly. Crap.
You Apple buyers actually think this is reasonable behaviour on the part of a vendor, and you accept this sort of abuse, willingly?
Care to explain why? Apple == ritual self-abuse, it seems. Are you people crazy?

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