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RE: iOS6 access to SMS, email, and call notifications using Bluetooth Smart / BLE
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RE: iOS6 access to SMS, email, and call notifications using Bluetooth Smart / BLE

  • Subject: RE: iOS6 access to SMS, email, and call notifications using Bluetooth Smart / BLE
  • From: Mark Davis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:23:46 -0500
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Thread-topic: iOS6 access to SMS, email, and call notifications using Bluetooth Smart / BLE

I have restated this, to be a bit more clear…

 

The key is the “iOS: Supported Bluetooth profiles”, identified on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3647.

 

These Bluetooth profiles are available to all  iOS developers, without any requirement for a MFi license. These are “Bluetooth v2.1+EDR” profiles (what Jeff is calling “classic Bluetooth”)… not Bluetooth LE.

 

Bluetooth devices that implement these “iOS-supported” profiles can communicate with iOS facilities on an iOS device. This allows communications between the Bluetooth device and relevant built-in apps included with the iOS operating system.  However, the iOS environment prevents any  direct communication between user-developed apps and Bluetooth devices using these “classic Bluetooth” profiles.

 

With CoreBluetooth, Apple has provided a mechanism for user-developed apps to communicate directly with Bluetooth LE devices, but this is independent of “Bluetooth v2.1+EDR” (“classic Bluetooth”) functionality.

 

If you want to develop a Bluetooth accessory that requires performance or features that can’t be accomplished with Bluetooth LE, and that must communicate directly with a user-developed iOS app, then the accessory must be developed and manufactured under a MFi license agreement.

 

Regards,

 

Mark

 

From: ming huang [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:17 AM
To: Mark Davis; email@hidden; email@hidden
Subject: RE: iOS6 access to SMS, email, and call notifications using Bluetooth Smart / BLE

 

Hi,

Now I got confused about the point 5:

- Mark clearly stated that if you are a iOS 6 developer and not a MFi licensee, you can use MAP.

- Previous emails by other people stated, but not specifically said, that if you are not a MFi licensee, then you cannot use MAP.

 

Would you please confirm which of my two understandings is correct? 

 

Thanks

Ming

 

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