Re: Hanging on our neck?

Mason A. Clark wrote:

My necklace at this moment is playing the Pastoral Symphony.
The size of my thumb. Plays for about six hours with excellent quality. I have the equalizer set for "Classic" and find "Rock" much too harsh. It's recorder is only good for voice but works well. Fast forward/back and track-select both are easy to use. I have 58 tracks at the moment. Pastoral is only four for 33 minutes. The rest are mostly piano.

$27 at Fry's on clearance as its 128 MB is obsolete. The 256MB model is listed at $99. Made in China.

The United States does not have the *ability* to either design or manufacture this necklace at *any* price.

The exchange rate has *no* bearing whatsoever on where such products are made.

Uh.....    what's to say?

Mason C 

Ummmm... iPOD?

There's no compelling reason to beleive the people who
made the thing had the *ability* either - at least
and still make any sort of profit. I beleive no money
was made on the early Japanese transistor radios - like
cars, they were sold at an effective loss to buy market
share.

*Ability* ? It's roughly a DSP/microprocessor combo,
a big old FLASH and maybe a D/A ( if there's none in
the DSP). A FLASH or masked FPGA to tie it all
together, using freeware CODECS and USB dfrivers.

Point being, I could easily assemble a team tomorrow to
build it "at any price" if you have the upfront. It would
be a cost reduction/shrink of this:

http://www.arcturusnetworks.com/ucdimm.shtml

and any group of five fresh graduates (plus one
boring old fart) could do the same. The
prototype on the above board should take less
than a week.

The question is: to what extent is any of the
intellectual property in that device actually
paid for?

--
Les Cargill


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