On: Lessons from 20 years of hype cycles (2016)

[CalChris]

The article is from 2016 and plants a premature tombstone on ultrawideband's grave:

  Ultrawideband: a short range radio technology, ultrawideband reached peak hype in the 2004 hype cycle but was abandoned by 2008

The U1 Chip for Ultra Wideband is in the Apple iPhone 11+12. It can be used for Airdrop, Airtag, car key, ...

[nxpnsv → CalChris]

Also it is fairly popular for ~1cm accurate indoor localization solutions...

[g-n → nxpnsv]

better to say ~30cm indoor localisation solutions. I did not see any UWB solutions yet that can provide centimeter accuracy in a real-life scenarios.

[CalChris → g-n]

My watch can ping my phone, and my key fob can ping my car. I find these to be embarrassingly handy location technology. I'm an Airtag skeptic right now but I was a late adopter on other things. I'll wait for the killer app.

Late adopter and killer app are 90s phrases if there ever were.

[nxpnsv → g-n]

Fair enough, I stopped working on this stuff a few years ago and only saw carefully orchestrated demos. (comment too old to edit)