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Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:55
AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] KAT5 Website
Updated
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