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Apple Planning to Add Bluetooth Support for AirPlay, and Expand iOS Accessory Capabilities
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Whilst I can't help but think this news must be leaning towards offering more rounded support for creating a trust between iOS devices and accessories, ie remote sending, remorse control - read Apple TV. I would love to be able to take that statement above literally.
Currently Apple restricts the use of Apps to wake from the background on a schedule and begin playing music, let alone to be able to stream that music.
I've recently been in the market for an AirPlay speaker to replace my bedroom alarm clock DAB radio. Nothing can be simpler then setting the alarm on an iOS device. My DAB radio fails miserably at this! Yet I can't quite retire the DAB unit until Apple lift this restriction - but how can this be done without allowing all maner of apps to suddenly spring to life?...... By allowing a trust between the two devices, and limiting the number of apps which can be trusted per iOS device.
Just a thought and a hope that this issue will be put to bed soon.
Can we finally get support for Sports Tracker bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor?!?!?!?
I hope so!!
http://www.sports-tracker.com/blog/hrm/
I hope so!!
http://www.sports-tracker.com/blog/hrm/
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What you're missing is that there are no AirPlay AND BT combined devices out there now. (Atleast not that I've found.) What your clicking on is just an Airplay Icon.
An Airplay device connects to a wifi network.
Image using an AirPlay portable speaker to listen to music from your iPhone for use outside, while washing your car, or by the pool, or grill. Now take that same setup the next time you go to the beach or go camping to listen to music. It won't work (wirelessly) because the wifi network is gone.
With this new change, you'll now be able to connect to your speaker via BT as well. With the same device, you can use AirPlay at home, or BT when on the go, or out of range.
What I'd like to see is universal support for a device like the GameBone
So that I could buy a game-pad accessory for my boys iPods and know it will work with every game.
Something like this would make Apple king of the portable gaming market. Who would want a PSP or DS when you could have a retina screen iPod with dPad and a plethora of AAA game titles for £0.69?
So that I could buy a game-pad accessory for my boys iPods and know it will work with every game.
Something like this would make Apple king of the portable gaming market. Who would want a PSP or DS when you could have a retina screen iPod with dPad and a plethora of AAA game titles for £0.69?
Before I go out and buy this app...can someone confirm that it does what I want it to do?
That is - I want to pair my unjailbrocken iPhone 4s to my MacbookPro - and to be able to directly send photos from my phone to my computer ( from my computer to my phone would be good too ). The ability to send other files ( docs etc. ) would be nice as well - though not essential.
Thanks
I am very excited by this news (assuming my non-tech brain understands this). I love Airplay, Apple TV, Airport Express, etc., but I've always been bothered by the network aspect of it. My devices seem to fall off the network periodically, and some devices - like the Apple TV - seem to get bothered when you have no internet connection as a part of the network, which is frequently the case for me. I like - what sounds to me to be - the "directness" of this new protocol. And it seems like it will really open the door for car stereo Airplay. (I feel like reasonable, basic car stereos should be playing nicer (no wires, no FM dependence) with iPhones by 2011. Maybe this will fix that.)
The article is about a "chip"
Unless I'm mis-reading the article, I think they're saying that Apple is going to provide a hardware chip that makes it easier for program members to integrate their devices.
This makes a lot of sense as Apple would take on the burden of the engineering/programming required to make Airplay work and make it easier for program members to make Airplay work reliably.
I'm sure the goal is to kick-start the use of Airplay, which has seem limited adoption by 3rd party device makers.
Unless I'm mis-reading the article, I think they're saying that Apple is going to provide a hardware chip that makes it easier for program members to integrate their devices.
This makes a lot of sense as Apple would take on the burden of the engineering/programming required to make Airplay work and make it easier for program members to make Airplay work reliably.
I'm sure the goal is to kick-start the use of Airplay, which has seem limited adoption by 3rd party device makers.
open bluetooth to apps?
Does this mean they will be opening bluetooth to lots of different app types. I would love to use my iphone with my bluetooth obd tool and it annoys me to no end that the only option for iphone is a much more expensive item that runs on a cable or using wifi. This was a strong point that had me looking at android pretty hard a while back. Also will this only be on new hardware or will they open up the current hardware in an ios update, i really hope for the latter.
Does this mean they will be opening bluetooth to lots of different app types. I would love to use my iphone with my bluetooth obd tool and it annoys me to no end that the only option for iphone is a much more expensive item that runs on a cable or using wifi. This was a strong point that had me looking at android pretty hard a while back. Also will this only be on new hardware or will they open up the current hardware in an ios update, i really hope for the latter.