Hi Steve, Congratulations! Sounds like a very interesting project.
The geek in me is say - "W00t - when can I get one!" Unfortunately, the product manager in me is sounding a bit more like Laszlo: raising questions like: What's the business model - are you targeting end-users, or are you trying to convince someone to OEM the design, customize it and market it to end-users? Personally I kinda hope you are targeting OEMs, although I don't see much of a mention of that on the website so far. If you are targeting end-users, it seems to me that you are falling into the same trap that OpenMoko did - building some cool hardware, and assuming that the software side will eventually happen. If however you have one or more visionary OEMs who will take your tech and build a compelling solution around it, that could be very interesting. I really believe that a device like this needs to have a seamless, well integrated hardware and software stack to be successful. For example, a device that a project manager inspecting a construction site could take with them and use to record the results of a site inspection could be very intersting. I'm not sure that the nano-note is the right form-factor for that, but something similar might work. My day job involves creating software for visual collaboration used across a wide range of industries - if you want to chat more about that, send me an email off list... Warren On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com>wrote: > A while back Wolfgang mentioned that he and I were starting a new venture.Drop > by and say hello. > > http://www.qi-hardware.com/ > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > -- Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist http://www.synergisticimages.ca
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