Hi, again! While I was reading the archives here, it occurred to me that the natural market for Freedom Box, the way to ensure massive uptake, was to target: families.
I even asked a couple of (different) women I know, in their mid-30s, how they would like secure private VoIP for their families, along with a family calendar, maybe blogs, possibly private 'family-only' email/text messaging, for around $100 one-time fee, but they need to provide internet access (which, of course, they already had). They were like: "who do I make out the check to"? But they naturally expected that they could do all of that from their phone while they were waiting in their cars in the Starbucks drive-thru line.h Which reminded me that, althoug I may have missed, I didn't remember seeing even once the term 'responsive interface' in the archives. (In this context, 'responsive interface' refers to a web page designed to automatically adjust itself to screen it is being displayed on.) It seems to me that anywhere in the world families would just naturally take to a 'family communications hub' if it were cellphone compatible. Families make up neighborhoods, neighborhoods (mesh opportunity) make up cities, cities make up countries, the more Freedom Boxes are adopted, the more families that come to rely on them, the more cover they provide for activists, because it would almost be abnormal *not* to have one in a household. If we can make it 'plug'n'play' (sorry!), and present it right. Plus, just to get them out the door and into peoples' hands, to make them desirable, they just need to be more private and secure than what people are using now, not necessarily 'activist grade' (that can come later, based on the experience of the 'family grade' product). -- Chris _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
