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I
was
wondering why they hadn't been mentioned in HCC or HE, but that's fair
enough -
Keith you need to employ a shed load of assembly elves to knock out the
units to
the masses.......
An
alternative would, of course, be to sell to a mass
manufacturer.
Has
anyone heard of the Silver Slider? A replacement CF sleeve for the
Compaq
iPAQ. Developed by a guy (george) in his spare time, v.popular as a
lot
smaller than Compaq's version & sexy looking to
boot!
He
teamed up with pdamotion who now do a mass produced version of this.
George presumably gets royalties or something on the units,
meanwhile still
does his own version and he has produced other variations on the
theme.
PDAMotion AFAIK, only have the rights to a particular model, so best
of
both worlds for George - he gets an income stream from the mass market
ones, but
also continues his sideline of hand crafted ones & newer
versions.
Nirvis, I believe, have come to a similar sort of deal with
Microsoft
over the slink-e units.
This
could be a way forward for Keith - mass production would gain him exposure
&
dosh & create a market for both the standard units & custom
jobbies
for 'special needs' ppl like those on the HA list :-)
Hey
Keith - if you need a business manager..... :]
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From:
Phil
Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 January 2002
10:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] KAT5
Website Updated
> The
only
reason I mention it, is that I'm meeting with my mate soon who does custom
HA
installs. I'll ask him
> what
he
thinks the potential is of both options in a more commercial environment
(rather than just selling to sad
> geeks
like us J)
Be carefull on this one ...
(I'm
only responding here because I know Keith is restricted at work as to how
much
access he has to email at work) ... I have a friend in a similar position
who
does shitloads of high end installs and another who writes features
for
Home Cinema Choice and they were both lined up. The installer loves these
units (but is waiting for IR return to be implemented) and the feature
writer
had done a news feature on the KAT5's and was ready to submit it and I just
thought I'd check with Keith first but he wanted to keep the units low key
for
the time being...
Phil
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