Any analysis would be less than insightful unless it comes from someone who sat in the meetings and helped write the standard. FWIW Bluetooth isn't "terrible."

Any analysis would be less than insightful unless it comes from someone who sat in the meetings and helped write the standard. FWIW Bluetooth isn't "terrible." It's pretty remarkable we can get all sorts of devices to communicate with eachother wirelessly and at low powers with pretty decent bandwidth. And now you can buy a Bluetooth stack on a chip from a variety of vendors. The bigger issue with Bluetooth is that failure conditions are mostly an afterthought by device manufacturers, and Bluetooth is becoming a sought after feature in environments less than tolerable to failure like automotive and medical devices.