but really Dan, you're a software guy. Software is the real value in the Receptor.DanTimis wrote:Keep in mind that this is just one guy. I'm sure he is very talented and capable, but right now it looks like he is alone:
http://beb.digitalaudio.free.fr/pages/aboutuspag.html
The hardware part isn't that unique now days. Muse could license your software to other hardware manufacturers and grow the market for standalone VST players and still make a bundle on plugarama.
Unless you're trying to do the "Apple" thing and control the hardware, OS, and applications. You'll find that now that you've started the market, other systems are going to jump in out of the woodwork. Some may do well because they are small companies, with brilliant people that saw the opportunity that you've created. They won't have legacy to hold them back from meeting the market demands or differentiating them from you. They won't be as good or have a plugarama at first. But they'll be competition, have something, like price that attracts users, and could eventually dominate the market.
A trimmed down XP might actually be up to the challenge, but there's a lot of work to getting just the OS and applications to run as smooth as the Receptor does. I bet you'd get some good hardware manufacturers jumping in if they could just license your OS, and software.
There's lots of examples of other companies who didn't catch on to this in history. I can't think of too many that were able to dominate the hardware/software/services long term in an discipline without licensing.
I heard Apple is doing real well with iTunes, and that's it's more profitable than their computer business now. And I've heard speculation that they could run windows eventually. Oh the horror of it, but they should have licensed OS-X to other hardware producers.
IMHO worth less than $.02
