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Re:Ask HN: Bluetooth kinda sucks. Why don't we have somethin... by david927 on Monday August 15, 2022 @11:00AM (#32470532)
We specifically got a printer that only can connect via a USB cable and it's been perfect.

But that's not the answer. Why? It's not that much data. WiFi doesn't seem to have some of these problems. Why is Bluetooth so shit?

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Re:Ask HN: Bluetooth kinda sucks. Why don't we have somethin... by rand49an on Monday August 15, 2022 @11:10AM (#32470688)
Because WiFi is only trying to fix one problem: connect your device to a local network. Bluetooth has hundreds of different use-cases.
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Re:Ask HN: Bluetooth kinda sucks. Why don't we have somethin... by ghaff on Monday August 15, 2022 @12:02PM (#32471399)
>Bluetooth has hundreds of different use-cases.

That is probably true but part of the problem is that, as I recall from years of Intel Developer Forums, Bluetooth was originally focused on mobile headsets and there were a bunch of other wireless technologies floating around for other purposes.

However, for whatever historical reasons, Bluetooth through a number of iterations pretty much ended up gobbling up all the non-WiFi wireless use cases (other than cellular and NFC of course). And it arguably wasn't really suited for a lot of them.

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