Re: Your favorite 10 analog IC's

From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:28:26 -0800

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:03:01 GMT, gwhite <gwhite@deadend.com> wrote:

>The bottom line: The directive was to take a small 200 person company in Los
>Gatos and build a $1 bil (or more) advanced radio communication system
>nationwide in a period of about 1.5 years (maybe 2), and all the marketing and
>revenue generating that must necessarily rapidly follow. No one can grow that
>fast and be successful for any realistic amount of investment. The "plan" was
>crazy and flawed at its root, despite certain executive management problems that
>did exist during the massive network inventory over production.
>
>I think this ended up being about a $1.5 bil train wreck.
>
>>
>> I think I actually saw a guy in a cafe using a laptop with a Ricochet.
>> Once.
>
>It actually worked pretty well. A good technology got snuffed out by a crazy
>plan.

Cool; I love biz stories.

But is/was there an actual money-making market for wireless internet
connections? This neighborhood is full of WiFi cafes and all that, and
even when it's free nobody is sitting and surfing, as far as I can
see. People talk or read books or read newspapers in public places. I
think the idea of surfing the net 24 hours a day is over.

John

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