Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
if they can build a $100 PC ... you think that they could build a
finread terminal for a couple bucks. sometimes there are issues with
volume pricing ... you price high because there isn't a volume and there
isn't a volume because you price high.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#49 Status of SRP
another aspect was that there was a program in the past to give away
smartcards and card readers to consumers as part of doing smartcard
financial transactions. the issue at the time was that deployed support
for pc/sc standard only supported pc serial port interfaces ... and
therefor the free card reader was a serial port device. there was an
ensuing disaster as consumers tried to get the serial port device
operational ... lots of stories of BSOD, having to re-install everything
from scratch, etc. as the dust was settling, there was a quickly
spreading opinion that smartcards (or at least smartcard readers) were
not viable in the consumer market segment. it was during this period
that m'soft even canceled its smartcard operating system project.
recent post discussing the subject:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#43 Spring is here - that means
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