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Introduction to Bluetooth Developer Note
Bluetooth offers several benefits such as low cost, expandability, and auto-configuration of wireless peripherals such as keyboards, mice, and printers.
Developers who are designing peripheral devices that connect to a Macintosh computer via Bluetooth will find this document useful.
Organization of This Document
This document contains the following articles:
Bluetooth Concepts describes Apple's implementation of the Bluetooth standard and defines the key concepts you need to ensure that your Bluetooth device is compatible with Macintosh computers that support Bluetooth.
Bluetooth Product-Specific Details provides details specific to particular Macintosh computers.
See Also
For specific information about a particular Macintosh computer, see the product Developer Note for that computer in the Guides > Hardware & Drivers > Apple Hardware.
For a list of the standard units of measure and abbreviations used in this developer note, refer to the Hardware Developer Note Terms and Abbreviations.
Apple offers the following additional resources for Bluetooth:
Bluetooth Framework Reference describes the C and Objective-C APIs that support user-space access to Bluetooth devices.
Bluetooth User Interface Framework Reference describes the C and Objective-C APIs that provide a consistent user interface to Bluetooth services.
Bluetooth Device Access Guide provides background information on the Bluetooth specification and code samples to illustrate application access to Bluetooth-enabled devices.
The Bluetooth developer mail list provides a forum for those developing products compatible with Macintosh computers and Mac OS X.
The official Bluetooth website (www.bluetooth.com) has the Bluetooth specification as well as information about the Bluetooth Special Interest Group and the official product-qualification program.
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