On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, S Woodside wrote:

> My suspicion is the support on PCs/laptops (aside from apple) is still 
> very limited, because microsoft didn't even put it into the OS toolkit 
> until just very recently (or is it soon? I can't remember). My 
> impression is that bluetooth "works" now but the apps are still 
> severely limited. The profiles are cool but for example, the apple API 
> only implements a tiny set of them.
> 
> to me it seems like the early wifi days when apple rolled out airport 

to call apple an early wireless adapter is either a stretch or you have a 
very short memory.

I have lucent 802.11 cards that say 97 on them and 900mhz stuff that's way 
older than that. the karlnet code that the airport was based on had been a 
mature product for a long time before the airport was introduced... what 
was novel was the pricepoint for the base which of course didn't last 
long.

> that worked because they controlled the hardware, the OS, and sold the 
> basestations. The others will be along eventually but right now it's 
> pretty spotty in terms of what it works with.
> 
> I'd like to know what you find (esp on linux)
> 
> simon
> 
> On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 04:30  PM, Mark Harrison wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody have experience with bluetooth yet?  I just got a
> > bluetooth phone (sony-ericsson t68i) and wanted to experiment
> > with it.
> >
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