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The rapid takeup of services such as Apple Computer's iTunes has shown that there is a market for the connected consumer: the home users who are now tying their appliances into the global network to get access to audio, video and other services. Apple has made possible for machines running iTunes on a local network to share files, showing a demand among users to listen to their music in different rooms. Consumers are increasingly networking their home in order to share a broadband Internet connection among multiple computers. Moreover, consumers are beginning to network their gaming devices and consumer electronics in order to access content on the Internet, and to share content across their home network. The consumer industry needs to cater for interoperability. Most problems with Bluetooth have not been with the core protocol but the way in which devices have to support the same profile for sharing communication. The Obje interoperability platform is designed to allow devices without prior knowledge of each other to link up, 'teach' each other about how to work together and to share information.