Tony, just a few misconceptions - Qi is global, same as Openmoko. Headquarter in San Francisco, R&D in Taiwan, Germany, USA. Production in China.
About patents - we care a lot. Qi Hardware is Copyleft Hardware. How could we think that this would work if we didn't respect intellectual property? We are not basing a business on risking lawsuits. Our general approach is - avoid patented technology whenever possible. Research carefully, help ourselves and our partners to accidentally step into a patent mine, maybe join a patent defense pool. After all, owning a patent still doesn't mean that you can force everybody to make use of your patent. It's not that bad yet! :-) Thanks for the heads up... Wolfgang On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:52:17AM +0200, Tony Berth wrote: > just few comments from a European! :) > > Its just FINE that you base your company in China. > China is worldwide a synonym of superior quality and most advanced > technology in terms of electronics and they are catching up extremely fast > with the rest of the industrial activities. > > I wouldn't care about Sisvel. Let them try to sue you in ... China :) What > Sisvel 'defines' is useless and they know that. How may chinese companies > were sued anyway? :) > > iPhone is WAY too expensive! A pure Mickey Mouse device. > > What I would like to see from your product would be a about 150EUR one where > I can install by myself the needed s/w (OpenMoko style!) and use it as a > portable multimedia player - for the beginning! :) > > In general is a NICE TRY and hope you'll release soon a ready to run device. > > Cheers > > Tony > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Christoph Pulster > <openm...@pulster.de>wrote: > > > >> 2. you announce products which are not exitant for sales. > > > It is our intention to announce roadmaps in the most open way > > > > customers prefer to know less and creat rumours. > > > > >> 3. you got no MPEG-patent licences. > > > We don't need them. > > > > Nobody needs them, but you have to pay them anyway. > > (Sisvel definition: any piece of HW who can decode MPEG algorith) > > > > >> 2. you base on "made in China" (synonym for crap in Europe) > > > Iphone is made in China. > > > > I am mentioning a marketing problem. > > I am mentioning a quality problem. > > Besides, Iphone backside says "assambled in China". > > > > >> 3. the PDA clam-shell form factor is obsolete > > > Not a single one commented negatively about the clamshell. > > > > Psion Plc. invent the clamshell and set the top-level of usable keyboard > > verses form-factor with Series 3 twenty years ago. > > We are in the SMS/twitter age now. Some vitual keyboard with multi-touch > > usability is sufficient. People who want to write full sentences buy a > > pencil with white paper. > > > > > > In general, what advantage does the NanoNote have to an Iphone with > > Linux installed ? > > > > > > Christoph > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community