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Article Excerpt
After a bumpy road, cool applications drive Bluetooth acceptance into high gear.
The electronics industry loves to hype the latest, greatest trend, and not long ago the topic du jour was Bluetooth. When Bluetooth technology didn't meet analysts' projections for exponential growth, many people dismissed it as not being viable. Quite to the contrary, Bluetooth is coming into its own in a big way, driven by a few applications that are spearheading the technology past a critical mass of usage. As a result, prices are dropping and consumer demand is accelerating.
'The Product Hype Curve'
If we look back at the evolution of Bluetooth over the past few years, it's clear that this technology has simply followed the typical "product hype curve" that most new technologies experience. When still in the R&D phase, a new technology captures the imagination of the press and then the public. Soon everybody is talking about this promising new technology and speculating about everywhere it could be applied. Even before it goes into initial manufacturing, enthusiastic market researchers make enormous predictions for usage and growth. Then, as often as not, the new technology encounters inevitable growing pains, engineers must iron out implementation details, and the technology doesn't come to market as quickly and as problem-free as everyone had hoped.
The press jumps on...
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