Jaap Haartsen
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Appearances Over Time
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And that's what Bluetooth does as well.
And the logo, yeah, it actually consists of two parts, and it comes from the rune alphabet.
One part is really a bee, bee from Bluetooth, but actually his first name is Harald.
And Harald in the rune alphabet is written as a pole with an X.
So if you have a pole and an X and you merge that with the B, then you get the logo which you see today.
I was a happy engineer just working with new scientific challenges.
But then at a certain moment in 2006, I read an article and it said, okay, there are 1 billion Bluetooth devices shipped.
And then I thought, oh, wait a minute, this is all very serious.
And I think there are like six or seven billion devices every year shipped now.
But also, some years ago, I bought a sauna.
And the sauna had Bluetooth inside, so I can listen to podcasts while in the sauna.