Consumers care whether it works, not the standard · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave looks back at the enormous excitement surrounding Bluetooth in 1999 and measures it against years of unreliable real world connections. As Zigbee becomes the next celebrated wireless standard, he argues that consumers do not care which protocol controls a device; they care whether the result works dependably.
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Proposed recording date: 2005-11-19. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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