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A lot of players (including Apple now it seems) trying to make money on top of a standard. there is no IP to be traded in Bluetooth LE itself. Device suppliers
by bdfh42 13y ago
A lot of players (including Apple now it seems) trying to make money on top of a standard. there is no IP to be traded in Bluetooth LE itself.
Device suppliers are trying to lock purchasers into particular brands.
Apple presumable are offering the facility of automatic recognition and filtering of specific devices to fire and pass data to iOS apps.
What we (as developers) need is an open standard for encryption and recognition so that we can work with multiple suppliers to meet the needs of our end users.
- mpclark 13y agoThe way it has turned out is sort of the other way around. Nearly the entire press corps refers to BLE beacons as "iBeacons", so there is some value to hardware manufacturers in being able to market their product under that name.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoIt's unfortunate though because Samsung will obviously never market a feature of iBeacons.
- aflinik 13y agoCan't tell if you're ironic, but they've just patented their own version of that called Flybell