Re: Hanging on our neck?

On Sun, 29 May 2005 14:50:41 GMT, Les Cargill <lNOcargill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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 $27 at Fry's on clearance as its 128 MB is obsolete.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?

And the last consumer electronics product designed and
manufactured in the USA was.... ? Year?

Hint: with none of those unreliable printed-circuit
boards.

Mason C
.

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