title: Wireless programming support with and without MFI
body: <p>Excuse me for asking more questions in a thread, but they are closely related.</p>
  
  <p>I am going to develop a wireless (most probably BlueTooth) adapter to be attached to my medical device. I have to develop an iPhone control application that has to send/receive data between this adapter over wireless.</p>
  
  <p>I want to confirm the following understandings/doubts.</p>
  
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  <li>To send/receive data between iPhone and my adapter, I need to certify my adapter as MFI and include apple authentication hardware into it. Is this the only way? Do we have any existing facility without having to get the certification and stuff like that?</li>
  <li>How does the MFI process work? Timeline? and procedure in a nutshell? </li>
  <li>I want to know alternatives which dont involve MFI process. Do we have enough programming support in iPhone SDK to have WiFi connection to my adapter to transfer data?</li>
  </ol>