Oh. And if you really want to sell it as an audio device you can add a
healthy margin - something like 200-300% would be common - for
distributors and the fact that you are in to open a can of worms
regarding licensing. If you sell this thing as an audio device, you are
violating patents you have to license and while the actual cost around
that may be reasonable (you need to allow for a decent minimum volume,
though, don't think about selling only a few hundred devices), the
process alone means you probably need somebody to work that full time
plus a lawyer. Count that into your pice and you get a very different
figure.

It's a common mistake made by smaller Asian electronics makers who think
that just because they put a free free software with open source
licenses on their devices and fulfill the license requirements of the
software, they would be fine. Trade shows are full of booths with empty
shelves because all the devices got seized due to this.


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