If your only incompatible BT devices are iDevices than you've visibly been exposed to very little BT kit.
Who was it that ignorantly & falsely stated "they are the guys who think Bluetooth is just for syncing with your computer.". You did.
Did this statement come from a wealth of experience? No, quite the opposite.
Did any research whatsoever go into it? No, you never even took the time to look up BT on Wikipedia.
Do you have any idea how BT works? No, that's much too much work. You expect things to just blindly work. If you were a doctor, you'd transfer blood to & from patients without typing & then blame those that died for some imaginary reason.

You think bluetooth profiles and chip design and different storage and ram types and battery technology and the plethora of other things that go into everyday devices are all the same, which only true in that they all have one thing in common: You understand none of it.

You are a fool. every post confirms it more & more.

Ahhhh, all becomes clear. You clearly have no idea what Bluetooth profiles are, are unaware that different telephone manufacturers use different profiles & ignorantly blame Apple for not implementing the BT profiles on some other non/PC/Mac device that you use.

The problem isn't with Apple but with the BT forum for allowing the plethora of incompatible BT profiles. As mobile devices are ressource constrained, each manufacturer chooses the BT profiles they support. PCs & Macs not having this problem, support pretty much all of them. Thus it is possible to transfer from BT devices to/from a PC/Mac as I have been doing for years, while being impossible to transfer between two different BT devices. Use of two devices from the same manufacturer will work (because they use the same BT profiles) but use of devices from different manufacturers often will not (different profiles).

The BT profile morass is what, in large part has made the use of BT devices a PITA as it is difficult to determine what profiles are are used in 2 devices spending hours debugging them & often discovering that they are incompatible. Each & every one of the devices is BT compliant, yet they cannot work together. It is no more Apple's fault for choosing profile X Y & Z than it is Motorola's for choosing A B & C & Lenovo's for choosing D E & F. Next time learn a little more about the subject before ignorantly criticizing Apple (or Motorola, or ...).

Contrary to to the ignorant tripe you were spewing, general BT file transfers has been available on iOS since at least the 3GS but don't let that stop you from exposing your ignorance. I suppose we should judge your sanitary habits from back when you regularly dumped into your nappies, because like the iPhone it's not as if anything has changed in the meantime, right?

Oh, puhlease. Abraham Lincoln's must have been presciently thinking of you when he said: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
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I share my iPhone's 4G to my rMBP daily over bluetooth. Yet another use of bluetooth on iOS which directly contradicts your ignorant statements...

Given how many bluetooth accessories you can buy directly from Apple, claiming that Apple "are the guys who think Bluetooth is just for syncing with your computer", is wilfully ignorant.

Australia & Europe NFC seems to be SoftCard based from what I understand. Apple Pay will be compatible with Softcard (with additions like needing the fingerprint reader to authorise sales instead of just accepting all requested payments blindly).

Look here for more info.

Good job in exposing your ignorance. Apple Pay uses the contactless specification of the EMV standard to provide "industry-standard EMV-level security” -- essentially the existing SoftCard EMV standard. There will be no wait, Apple Pay can be used wherever Softcard is deployed.

Here. Read this and the associated documents.

Apple Pay's adds onto the SoftCard a level of security in using the secure fingerprint reader & in not being able to see user transactions (whereas Google Wallet leaves itself in the loop so that they CAN see each transaction).

Thanks for the link to concordance, I might start using the harmony again.

My problem with a system that I might use to program household devices like lights, temperature etc, is that if the programmation is not private, it could be used to determine whether or not anyone is home. I do NOT trust Logitech with that level of information...

Awww, poor guy, he got 3-4 years of use & upgrades out of his old iDevices. It's soo much better on Android where most devices are sold with outdated firmware & never updated. Not just abandoned but orphaned at birth.

Adding to your insightful commentary, I do NOT want anyone to access the programming I have setup on my devices because I do not want anyone with possibly malevolent intentions being able to guess when I am home/on vacation.

Then they need to add a button that lets me download the needed device definitions when needed but let me configure the remote OFFLINE! I have a Harmony that I abandoned precisely because their web interface is slow, kludgy and reveals information that I do not want people outside my home to know.

If Logitech thinks that I am going to export even more information on the devices I use & what I am doing with them so that they can sell it to others, they have another thing coming.

Defending whom exactly? Anyone who pays attention already knows how to prevent automatic downloads of music to their iDevices (turn automatic downloads of music off) & knows how trivially it is to remove tracks from their iDevice (swipe left).

So who is it that "we" are supposed to be defending?
The clueless who change their automatic downloads of music to on & then lie that "Duh Music just appeared by majik"?
The apple haters who don't even own an iDevice but are attempting to label a wart a mountain?
The U2 haters who rag on & on that the group hasn't come out with an original song in a decade? My $DIETY the Embarrassment!!!
The people that are opposed to getting a free album of music that they may not appreciate but that can delete it trivially?

Who exactly is it that you are shrilly claiming needs saving? I can tell you this, it's not a normal iDevice user who pays attention when setting up his/her iDevice, appreciates free music if it's to his/her taste and deletes the album otherwise.

That "design milestone" by Boeing comment is completely unsupported & is in all probability false.

Boeing has yet to exit the design phase & has no hardware at present, while Dragon 1 has made multiple flights to ISS & Dragon II flight hardware is being assembled NOW.

Again, NO! Automatic downloads are NOT the default! YOU may not have had the willpower to resist the suggestion that you turn it on, but it is only a suggestion, not a default setting one has to change to off. This is not subject to debate, your statements to the effect that automatic downloads are the default are WRONG.

You can stop it with the "apparently" and the "technically" bullcrap, you are factually wrong.

Clueless users are legion, that changes nothing. Idiots run red lights all the time but that is no defense when one of these idiots runs a light & T-bones a mother & her kids. Neither is complaining that "Duh iTunes did it widdout mah consent" when that too is patently false.

Yeah, you didn't pay attention when setting up your iDevice & never bothered to look at "Preferences>iTunes & App Store", now accept the consequences for those acts of inattention & your consequent ignorance without complaint. Do NOT attempt to contradict those who do know what we are talking about. The two words Automatic Downloads followed by on/off controls for Music, Books, Apps & Updates are clearly beyond your comprehension level.

What apple stuff? I'm willing to bet that most of the people claiming to be outraged don't even have an iDevice & are just piling on in order to rag on apple &/or U2.