Agreed, at least in volume. Which is more or less needed for a hardware product like this. There might be one can reach some thousands via the Internet, maybe using a Kickstarter type platform. But probably would quickly saturate its own niche market.
I desperately hope something like this gets popular. I see one off ideas every now and then but there's not one big system that's easily purchasable yet.
If that's already possible I think there's probably a huge marketing opportunity to break it out into a product and shout about it. I'd imagine there's a lot more people out there interested in that than this.
Neat. Really needs someone to go ahead and mass produce. I assume Google realized the market is too small for them to worry about, but if someone could build them in bulk I'm sure they would find an audience of people willing to pay a decent price.
My guess is there are not a lot of people who could both a) build this in a short amount of time and b) find practical uses for it.
The big pain in such an endeavor is the high cost of an hardware company and the low quantity and the long time it will take to build an ecosystem around such an offering. I'd buy one or a few but beyond the tinkerers there aren't going to be many buyers.
Unless someone of the Google/Facebook clubs will decide it is in their best interest to have such a thing and to enable it to be sold to others as well it is not that likely to happen.
Than again, a lot of them do self-build. Even if this system is only good enough to attract techies and enthusiasts, that might be enough to give it a viable market.
Yeah I was thinking mostly from an individual standpoint (something that could be sold to more individuals rather than businesses). The market is still pretty new for this kind of tech, but if people can envision a future of what people could do with something like this, in 10 to 20 years it could be pretty big.
Could even have military applications (com gear is fried on an intel sensitive mission, and exfil is not for another week or two)…
This is really cool. I'd love to see more devices like this. As I don't exactly have the resources to build one on my own, I'd also be interested in the opportunity to buy one.
This seems pretty cool. I'm curious about the viability of such a product in the marketplace, it seems like even at full scale production it would be radically expensive for an average consumer.
It seems to be phrased both ways, like "I want something that does these things, and I think there is a market for it". We were mostly addressing the first part.
I agree that a consumer-oriented gadget to do the same thing easily could be neat. I don't know that there'd be that big of a market though. I suspect most of the general population wouldn't see the need, and the very geeky would tend towards existing free methods of doing the same thing (MythTV and the like).
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