Jag hittade texten:
From: Sound King Records [email protected]
Date: Mon Feb 04, 2002 11:28:36 AM US/Eastern
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Apple and Bluetooth
I doubt Apple will support Bluetooth until some fundamental problems with the technology are worked out. There are a number of articles online that describe how Bluetooth devices can seriously interfere with an Airport network connection (i.e. slow it to a crawl).
Here´s an excerpt from one:
´There are 83.5 channels in the 2.4GHz band. Bluetooth uses 79 of these channels. Wi-Fi uses 22. Inevitably, there is some crossover.
Wi-Fi hops channels twice a second and checks to see if a channel is in use before using it. It´s the ´Miss Manners´ of the 2.4GHz band. Meanwhile, Bluetooth channel hops 1,600 times a second and doesn´t check to see if a channel is in use before it leaps onto it.
Bluetooth is hopping all over the spectrum, like an over-sugared six-year-old kid. It doesn´t look before it leaps. If it picks a channel that Wi-Fi is already talking on, it just talks over top of the existing transmission. At the other end of the channel, the Wi-Fi receiver can´t make head or tail of what was being sent. When this happens, Wi-Fi is smart enough to scale back its transmission and tries again at a slower speed.´
Full article here: http://www.e-magazineonline.com/FEA/FEA012505.htm
More here: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2071957,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39912,00.html
You probably know about this, and I´m sure apple does too. I don´t see why they would lend any momentum to a technology that seems badly engineered and conflicts with the Airport technology that they have already made significant investment into.
...och detta var kommentaren från MOSR:
Although we have repeatedly heard from Cupertino that the company does not intend to implement Bluetooth as it currently standards, the company is looking to hire engineers with Bluetooth know-how and has had a significant presence at several recent Bluetooth events around the world. While we do not expect the current Bluetooth standard to be implemented on the Mac, when the Airport interference issues are resolved we predict Bluetooth will appear on new Macs with great haste.
[ 26 Februari 2002: Meddelandet ändrat av: Adrian B ]