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Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 3 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Apple uses a modified version of Bluetooth

Edit: for Apple-only version

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Every version of Bluetooth since 1.0 has been a modified version of Bluetooth.

[+] vaionko@sopuli.xyz -9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No one uses standard bluetooth. I'm pretty sure it can only transfer files in its base form

[–] zik@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That's absolutely not true. Bluetooth has many "profiles" which define different capabilities. Here's a list of them. These are all defined in the official bluetooth standards.

Maybe you were thinking of the "core specification" which defines the underlying protocol but doesn't define the profiles? But that's just the way they broke up the spec documents. The profiles are still official parts of bluetooth.

Apple's proprietary extensions for audio are not part of any official specification though.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

Thank you for the correction. I was indeed thinking of the profiles and misremembered how it all works.