Phil and Lynn,
sorry if i sounded suspicious in my post. I was having a hard time
deciphering the article and the U3 site. when the marketing hype
reaches a certain point above the technology the radar goes onto high
gain.
I agree more places that we can market rev products the better. i was
more concerned that there might be some hidden gotchas hiding in the
bushes. I had talks with a whole slew of technology folks in the
early 90s that were trying to get us to use their new technologies on
our multimedia cdroms and pushing hardware licensing deals and most
of them ended up having some pretty severe strings attached once i
was able to strip away the marketing babble. the ceo was not happy
for me for popping bubbles, but he always agreed that he could not
live with the terms they usually wanted when brought into the light
of day. Doesn't appear that U3 has these strings, but will take a bit
more looking at the dev docs to tell for sure what the story is. I
was assuming that they were generating their working revenue from
hardware licenses, but wasn't sure if that would change at some point
(some of the deals mentioned above kicked in payments after the first
title or two).
They mentioned there wasn't a killer app yet for U3, but one market/
approach that might end up being one of the strongest for them might
be education. kids are already carting along all sorts of stuff on
flash drives these days. kids are probably more mobile with content
and apps these days than the wired business person! they also tend to
pick up new hot technology w/o a blink, especially if its mobile. im
sure we will soon see cool flash drive sleeves with all sorts of
blinking stuff for the young market soon!
some future ideas jump to mind:
• a cool mp3 player that was highly customizable with graphics,
playlists, volume control (ie automatically crank the one you always
crank when you play it)
• schoolwork/curriculum scheduler as so many schools are using e-
systems for schoolwork due dates, trips, tests, etc
• customized e-syllabus system that you could add your own notes to
• lecture notes/recordings/diagrams player
• etext reader/markup systems
the great thing is these are all things that rev is great at doing
quickly and easily and should have a great jump on other development
systems.
its great to see that rev should be able to slip into the U3 format
pretty easily since it works so well as a standalone system already!
Also great to hear that it will be an option for studio license,
economics (all poor education clients now days) has forced me to drop
the enterprise for studio level.
cheers,
Jeffrey Reynolds
On Jun 25, 2006, at 11:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is there something wrong with opening up new markets for Rev apps? I
*hope* it's about marketing! I mean, think about it... if we build
things for which there is no market, who have we benefitted? Unless
I'm
using Rev for self-amusement only, I would have to say "no one".
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