28 Future Developments
When the Bluetooth SIG was originally formed, its aim was simply to produce version 1.0 of the Bluetooth specification. The plan was to dissolve the SIG at that point. As time went by, it became obvious that more could be done with Bluetooth in many ways:
- Version 1.0 was produced in a hurry and still needed corrections and clarifications.
- The list of profiles did not cover important areas, so there was scope for more profiles.
- There were proposals for enhancing Bluetooth to produce a version 2.0.
The Bluetooth SIG promoters announced that the SIG would continue in operation as long as Bluetooth devices were being made. The SIG reformed into a version 1.2 SIG, and members of the original SIG. Unlike the original SIG, ...
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