wow...a media company is trying to compete with piracy instead of just trying to squish it like those no-brainers running the music industry?
I'm all for it...somebody finally realized that people WILL pay for things if they are actually BETTER...(eg. Limewire vs. buying a cd - now thats a joke)
What do people own now? Laptops and Cellphones
What is bluetooth for? neither of these.
Why is everyone using 802.11b? Because everyone owns laptops.
A few things need to happen before the bluetooth revolution can even begin, and none of those things have happened. First, internet-ready cellphones need to add Bluetooth. There is no guarentee this will happen but I think it will because Bluetooth is MUCH lower power than 802.11b and cellphone companies probably won't mind slapping on a marginal ammount of power usage.
Once cellphones have it, everyone will want to put it in every device, and why? Because it will be cheap, and it will be low power. Stick it in a car, stick it in a mini-cellphone that connects to the transmitter in your pocker, stick it in a Palm or PocketPC to go through your cell for internet browsing...Right now an iPaq with 802.11 lasts about an hour...and the range really isn't that great...let the cellphone people deal with the big signal, and let everyone else come through them...
I think bluetooth just isn't ready...but its coming...
AverStar created AppletMagic, which is able to compile Ada95 down to Java bytecode. Good language to check out if you aren't glued to C syntax, and hey, Ada powers all of our nuclear weapons too.
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wow...a media company is trying to compete with piracy instead of just trying to squish it like those no-brainers running the music industry?
I'm all for it...somebody finally realized that people WILL pay for things if they are actually BETTER...(eg. Limewire vs. buying a cd - now thats a joke)
This is the way I see it...
What do people own now? Laptops and Cellphones
What is bluetooth for? neither of these.
Why is everyone using 802.11b? Because everyone owns laptops.
A few things need to happen before the bluetooth revolution can even begin, and none of those things have happened. First, internet-ready cellphones need to add Bluetooth. There is no guarentee this will happen but I think it will because Bluetooth is MUCH lower power than 802.11b and cellphone companies probably won't mind slapping on a marginal ammount of power usage.
Once cellphones have it, everyone will want to put it in every device, and why? Because it will be cheap, and it will be low power. Stick it in a car, stick it in a mini-cellphone that connects to the transmitter in your pocker, stick it in a Palm or PocketPC to go through your cell for internet browsing...Right now an iPaq with 802.11 lasts about an hour...and the range really isn't that great...let the cellphone people deal with the big signal, and let everyone else come through them...
I think bluetooth just isn't ready...but its coming...
AverStar created AppletMagic, which is able to compile Ada95 down to Java bytecode. Good language to check out if you aren't glued to C syntax, and hey, Ada powers all of our nuclear weapons too.