The growing pains being experienced by Bluetooth are no different than those being felt by USB or Wi-fi in its early years. Keep in mind that Wi-fi has been around, as a standard for 10 years. Bluetooth was an idea only 5 years ago and is just getting its feet wet. Most industry analysts, however, have nothing but praise for this accomplishment. Frost and Sullivan just said in a recent report, "Critics would be hard-pressed to name any other wireless communications technology that managed to achieve the volumes and diversity of deployment of Bluetooth in just six years," and went on to say, "There are no clear competitors to Bluetooth in the personal area networking space, and while there may be other new technologies on the fringes of its range, none have its scope, volume or maturity,". Bluetooth is not dead, its just young - but it too will grow up.
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The growing pains being experienced by Bluetooth are no different than those being felt by USB or Wi-fi in its early years. Keep in mind that Wi-fi has been around, as a standard for 10 years. Bluetooth was an idea only 5 years ago and is just getting its feet wet. Most industry analysts, however, have nothing but praise for this accomplishment. Frost and Sullivan just said in a recent report, "Critics would be hard-pressed to name any other wireless communications technology that managed to achieve the volumes and diversity of deployment of Bluetooth in just six years," and went on to say, "There are no clear competitors to Bluetooth in the personal area networking space, and while there may be other new technologies on the fringes of its range, none have its scope, volume or maturity,". Bluetooth is not dead, its just young - but it too will grow up.