Janak Parekh
04-14-2003, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.bluetoothnews.com/editorial.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.bluetoothnews.com/editorial.htm</a><br /><br /></div>One of the things cited in Ed's <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=101993">post</a> last week was Bluetooth's difficulty getting off the ground. David Shier, who runs the <a href="http://www.bluetoothnews.com/">BluetoothNews</a> site, talks about one non-consumer application that may serve as a useful launching pad for Bluetooth - industrial automation.<br /><br />In several ways, such a commercial environment makes a lot of sense. Apart from us early adopters, mass consumer adoption of Bluetooth will only happen when it's cheap. Many applications have been developed and made more cost-effective in commercial/industrial arenas and then "handed down" to the consumer market, and Bluetooth might become one of these.