iPhone Bluetooth Music Remote Control

Problem:

The iphone does not support the bluetooth protocols that are required to create a bluetooth remote control.  It seems that this is something apple should be interested in building.  One remote that would work with my Mac, my iPhone, iPod touch, iPod and iPad.  This would be super great for anyone who wishes to control their device, without the problems of line of site.

Solution:

Here is another feature that I think we should have had a long time ago, adding the profile to the devices so that they can be remote controlled.  That would be the most elegant solution but would require apple to release it in order for all the hardware manufacturers to build the remote controls.  If apple added this, it would even be possible to add the control features to the native apps, and extended to 3rd party apps.  For instance, it could remote keynote from the ios device, it could remote the iPod player and any other application  such as the video player could hop on board and be controlled.

In the case that apple will not, or has not done it, why not build a custom app?  Applications + hardware solution is less elegant, but still works.  Building a wifi remote control would be the next best solution.  An app on the iOS device would listen to the wifi remote control.  This wifi remote could be used for anything, not limited just to iOS, but with a special iOS app, it could be used to control music.  Other apps could be built to play videos.

The bigger idea of course, is that if we had a wifi remote, it could be used in any 3rd party application, that choose to use it.  I think this would be a great idea for any company currently making peripherals.