[Diggory Laycock]

What does anyone reckon the chances are of us getting mac OS X drivers for any of these bluetooth PCMCIA cards/USB devices that are beginning to pop-up all over the place?

I understand that Bluetooth is a rather sophisticated spec (understatement of the year.) But surely one of these manufacturers will recognise the advantage of the mac market (as manufacturers of other peripheral-types have.)

Or is my idea of a bluetooth "driver" rather simplistic? would the ability to use bluetooth under OS X also require APIs from apple, (a bit like Infra-red.)

I personally think bluetooth is a fantastic idea and I hope I can use it on my mac soon - (my secret hope is that Apple likes bluetooth but is being secretive about it - so it can be a wow factor on future hardware.)

p.s. please don't tell me that bluetooth is dead and that I should use Airport - They do fundamentally different things and they can co-exist (both in the market-place and in the Radio spectrum )

I hope some bluetooth driver for OS X will pop out soon sd I already have a phone (ericsson T39) and a pda (Sony CLIE) that support it. I have a powerbook G4 and would love to be able to get online thru bluetooth. BTW OS X 10.1 is great!

[zappy]

I would love to get a bluetooth adaptor for my iBook so that it can talk to my /// T39m . Something like this "TDK USB Bluetooth Adaptor". According to ZDNet it will be available on Nov 14th in Germany for DEM 309.

Edit: Here is the article from ZDNet (in german). It mentions that its only for windows .

[ 11-11-2001: Message edited by: zappy ]

[pcd2k]

iterseting imean interesting
istill wonder about the actuality of the issues surrounding mergent technologies such as bluetooth (from whenst it came etc) and airport
perhaps steve is in the process of releasing airport 2

[zappy]

Originally posted by pcd2k:
<STRONG>iterseting imean interesting
istill wonder about the actuality of the issues surrounding mergent technologies such as bluetooth (from whenst it came etc) and airport</STRONG>

<STRONG>perhaps steve is in the process of releasing airport 2</STRONG>

Airport and Bluetooth are different. They can coexist.