Apple joins Bluetooth SIG board of directors

http://www.gizmag.com/nordic-semiconductor-dayton-bluetooth-4-heart-rate-monitor/18880/

btw i h8 bt

"...it's...been very faithful to the (Bluetooth) standard..."

Are you quite serious with that remark, or is it meant to be some sort of a bad joke???

The fact that a standard, un-jailbroken iPhone is incapable of communicating via Bluetooth with any non-Apple device, bar perhaps an automotive handsfree kit, is pathetic, and the very suggestion that iOS has been "faithful to the standard" is laughable. Even my old Razr or Siemens-S65 whips the iPhone in the Bluetooth stakes.

How about we blog a little more objectively, shall we, before I delete my TUAW App out of disgust. Pfft.

Apple: always looking for new ways to AMP UP THE HYPOCRISY.

iOS devices have the most crippled, bullshit Bluetooth "support" in the consumer realm. Why on earth should Apple be allowed to have any say in the future of this technology? They shouldn't even be allowed to use the term in connection with their products.

Remember that Apple joined the Blu-Ray consortium too, and look where that led: to Apple reneging on that "support" in epic fashion.

Apple may not be as bad as Sony when it comes to undermining standards that could move consumer products forward, but they work extremely hard to cripple their own products. As long as that's their agenda, they have no place at the table where decisions are supposed to be made for the advancement of technology.

"but it's also been very faithful to the standard, including Bluetooth in all of the eleventy billion iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches out there these days"

unfortunately crippling it in the process...

My sole wish here is that the iPhone supports the rSAP Bluetooth Profile so I can actually connect it to the bluetooth kit installed by VW in my Golf. I still find it unbelievable that the two devices can't talk to each other but yet my wife's ancient Nokia can.

Here's hoping that Apple will finally address the on going problem with connection issues involving blue tooth headsets. All blue tooth headsets that I've owned, about ten so far, have had connection issues with my iphone 4. They all would drop their connection sporatically, even though you're within inches of the phone. I've read where other iphone owners have experienced the same problem.