Welson, I would actually be more interested to see how Muscle could address this potentially very useful technology. Personally I don't mind _some_ flaming but I believe quite a few others do. I am afraid that Scott and I could go on 4-ever if not stopped in time...
Anders ----- Original Message ----- From: "Welson R. Jacometti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MUSCLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 21:47 Subject: Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology Hello guys, I used to love Bitnet flames. Please let's start one here!!! Welson Anders Rundgren wrote: >Scott, > >I don't get this. I must be dumb :-) > >Is ISO 14443 a proprietary "twonkie"? > >Exactly how do YOU suggest that new HW technology should be established? > >A bunch of happy guys with soldering irons and a few thousands bucks >get togther and make it in open? > >To yawn at Phillips, Samsung and Nokia is really dangerous. > >The other mentioned RF technologies have not yet become industry >standards and some of them will fail. But NFC seemt to have a unique >"value proposition" that actually does not have a single real competitor. > >Anders > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Scott Guthery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "MUSCLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 21:11 >Subject: RE: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology > > >Yep, just like BlueTooth, Zigbee, X-10, HomeRF and blah, blah, blah. > >Given any k companies from a set of N in an industry, they will form a >forum to declare their proprietary twonkies to be the industry standard. > >Yawn. > >Cheers, Scott > >-----Original Message----- >From: Anders Rundgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 2:50 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology > >http://www.nfc-forum.org > >Finally, a technology that is produced by major companies that really >solves not just a single problem but a huge number of completely >different problems, ranging from WLAN access, calendar synchronization, >to card reader "emulation". > >Only a universal technology like this is likely to become a truly >standard item in personal computers. >_______________________________________________ >Muscle mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle > > > >_______________________________________________ >Muscle mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle >_______________________________________________ >Muscle mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle > > > _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
