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To: unclewest who wrote (17094)	5/1/2000 1:42:00 AM
From: drenko	Respond to of 35685

I agree with Uncle on this one. -drenko

To: unclewest who wrote (17094)	5/1/2000 10:34:00 AM
From: arthur pritchard	Respond to of 35685

uncle: It came out, that there are no appliances being made, which are able to be controlled, with the one exception of a company in Italy. The big manufacturers here are not interested in adding $10 to their costs; this came out in the meeting. If your disagreement is based on your wanting the features yourself, then I agree with you. But if one can't purchase appliances to control, then what is going to be the market for the person selling the networking system? If you can't even buy adaptors for standard appliances now available, it is not a market I understand. perhaps you could shed some light on this. By the way, I have alot to gain, if these products would operate in the home environment, and my business is that of a landlord, and I have been dreaming for years, about making everything I own "automated". Just want you to understand, that my intent is NOT to make trouble. But I hate bs when I see it, and it was TOO prevelent at the shareholders meeting, in my opinion. I would welcome any help with this, as I would be among the first to use whatever actual and practical products available. I am sure you get that I am NOT critical at all, of its relevence to new commercial buildings, where the items to be controlled go WAY beyond, the kind of appliances one finds in homes. My complaint is, that a large part of the shareholders presentation, was bs about how it will make a home look and feel. This is unadulterated bs and an attempt to deal with shareholders there, as if they are really naive. Given where the actual income of elon is coming from now, and where it realistically is likely to come from in the next couple of years, this stock will vascilate alot. I have two friends into this stock big time. That is why I am pressing this matter. I have no patience for bs and a style which treats honest questions the way he did. And I was not the only one there asking questions like this.