>>>>> "Ron" == Ron K Jeffries <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi David, Understood, but the operative phrase is "for what I want to > use it [Nanonote] for" Maybe "what I want to use the Nanonote for" is not the best question to ask? Trying to make it do just everything and be of limitless power, might result in an inferior product in many ways (price, size, development time, ease of use etc.). I'm not per se against improving the nanonote's capabilities, but seeing how people started lengthly wishlists I felt that the contrary viewpoint would be lost. IMO the Ya Nanonote wiki page ( http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ya_NanoNote_Specs ) suffers from the same problem. > 1) what are bullet points describing your use case? - image viewer - programmable calculator - development board for testing ported software :) > 2) given your desires, if Ya Nanote can? > --do everything Ben Nanote does as well or better > --stay about the same size > --sell for a similar or slightly higher price (at first) > Ya should be all that, plus ALSO have desirable new features to > GREATLY increase number of prospective customers, including possible > high volume sales. > Does that sound like a plan? Every feature added adds X custumers, but looses Y customers who won't be willing to pay a higher price. Thounds like a lot of tough decisions to make. BTW I'd claim that "simplicity" is a feature that can attract customers, too :) > My UNOFFICIAL analysis indicates Ya can not be ready any sooner than > 12 to 18 months from now. That says Spring 2012 earliest, Christmas > 2012 latest. If those dates can't be made, the project doesn't make > sense, because the world moves on. By 2013 the specs of Ya will > already be low end, but should sell (at some unknown rate...) to those > who treasure freedom. > Obviously Ben Nanonote would continue to be available. It may make > sense to continue to offer Ben after Ya is shipping, assuming Ben has > ~significantly~ lower price. Ben would be the cheap non-connected From the keep-it-simple-stupid viewpoint I'd rather not like to have to deal with two devices. Having to maintain firmware for both adds extra work. Maybe it's overal cheaper to just give Ben owners a discount for the Ya upgrade? cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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