For anyone that has been living in a cave and has not heard about EDIG more info from Clearstation:
From : drhunt Dec 29 1999 7:59PM
Replying To : rakitup (post 5586)
Title : DD in a bottle
rakitup- Savage gave you the link to some very entertaining reading...many months of investigating, compilation and collation, all for your reading enjoyment. It will take you awhile to get through most of it, but well worth the time. Begin tonight. Read the patents. For in those lies the meat of what edig engineers and administration are currently working towards making a standard in the emerging market of handheld devices. Yes, I understand that PDA's and Smart phones have some interconnectivity and multifunction, but it is child's play compared to what will be delivered and available in just a year or so from now.
In the meantime, there's internet music devices, Lanier medical voice recorders, and probably video applications with IBM's microdrive in a handheld device. Revenues stream will be from not only royalties from selling the mOS software outright, but from engineering fees from designing and building reference devices. Very little overhead costs are incurred with this business model, as the construction, parts and labor are outsourced to third party vendors. In the case of the Lanier device, the manufacturer is Eltech, a company in Malaysia, I believe.
Concentrate on the alliances that e.Digital has made, with particular attention paid to why these companies are on board. Read any end-of-the-year article describing innovations in technology and the directions that these advances will take us, and you will begin to appreciate the significance of flash memory in the PC peripheral markets and the file management systems that will be necessary to utilize in these handheld devices.
Then, when you're through with all that, imagine this world with these devices, and you controlling function with voice commands. Once IBM, L&H and/or Dragon refine their speech recognition software to the point where voice will be the main form of directing function, then the VTT applications for the mOS begins to make the MOST sense and revenues for this company. You will talk to your handheld device, directing function, connecting to the internet, gaining e-mail, e-trades, e-commerce...conducting business through audio/video data transmissions, anywhere in the world. Wireless communications. Streaming, real time data...coming across your LCD screen on your Palm top computer or 3G phone, with AA or AAA batteries powering it all.
Can e.Digital become the standard for flash memory filing, not to mention microdrive? Why not? I have spent an ungodly amount of time trying to find competition to the mOS...and have yet to uncover one. Again, read the patents. Perhaps this is why e.Digital was approached by Intel, Lucent, IBM and TI shortly after these patents were secured, which was in Nov. 1998. Begin to look for PR's from major DSP and SoC manufacturers announcing that the mOS is embedded onto their chips, and this will be the beginning of the significant dominoe effect that makes this company's file management system a standard.
hope these tidbits help,
drhunt
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