Hello,
> What does it take to reverse this state of fortune? You have to revive the > marketplace, or generate a new marketplace that's ideally suited to those > users. It has to be able to generate income. It has to have lots of users > that are willing to spend lots of money... > > How would you do that? > > You have to have hardware or software so compelling, people simply have to > buy it. It also has to look like, or share a major characteristic with the > original products. This new (for the QL) marketplace does exist. I had published here and in Quanta a long article about the QL as a education toy (when was it? nov 99?). It would not require the fastest possible machine, but a QL based on the Dragonball processor and designed at the lowest possible cost. Which is also an interesting challenge, I think, for a hardware designer. With a QL based design, it would be possible to do better than any of the existing toys. Hence I believe that the possible market would be at least 5000/10000, possibly up to 50 000 per year. However this idea did not raise much interest. Arnould
