Didn't Bluetooth define a new network stack all the way through the transport layer, rather than the way 802.11 was developed such that it exposed a low error rate abstraction that TCP/IP would run over?
Given that so many devices will have a TCP/IP implementation and of course the huge amounts of money directed towards 802.11 (Intel especially, no?), Bluetooth seems to become a complicated, incompatible, and even unnecessary beast.
I'm not saying Bluetooth doesn't have merits, but industry support and ease of implementation lie elsewhere.
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Didn't Bluetooth define a new network stack all the way through the transport layer, rather than the way 802.11 was developed such that it exposed a low error rate abstraction that TCP/IP would run over? Given that so many devices will have a TCP/IP implementation and of course the huge amounts of money directed towards 802.11 (Intel especially, no?), Bluetooth seems to become a complicated, incompatible, and even unnecessary beast. I'm not saying Bluetooth doesn't have merits, but industry support and ease of implementation lie elsewhere.