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To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (2060)	5/12/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Wahoograd	Respond to of 11417

Doc Stone, you may be right. My understanding is that Wave's business plan for this year calls for early production of WaveMeters in peripheral card products so they can get a promotional head start and begin to penetrate the market prior to potential rollouts from the boxmakers. These would apparently take less time to produce and package with CD ROMs and may in fact be one of the product introductions and demos at the upcoming E3. This is not to imply that one or more OEM announcements would not occur concurrently (or earlier) as we all hope for. Wahoograd

To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (2060)	5/12/1998 11:38:00 AM
From: 24601	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11417

Doc: No soldering is involved in adding an expansion card. It is a quintessential plug-n-play procedure. You seem to wonder whether Wave will have a tough time getting people to use the WaveMeter. That misses the point. People will go after the content they want. Wave wants to provide a distribution mechanism that produces microtransactions that are so efficient that everybody - content seller, platform seller, and end user - benefits. As Peter Sprague has said, people don't drive around looking for parking meters. They look for good parking spaces. Build a fair and efficient parking meter at each good parking space and they will come. The key is getting a couple of million WaveMeters out in the marketplace.

To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (2060)	5/12/1998 2:18:00 PM
From: andrew peterson	Respond to of 11417

Frankly, unless there were an incredibly compelling reason to do so, I wouldn't be likely to stick a WaveMeter card into my computer either. I don't think that anyone's likely to use any of these add-on sorts of products. My point is that personally I don't believe that this is a battle for the already installed base of computers -- it's for everything that's manufactured from here on out. I think that the WaveMeter will be one reason to buy a new computer a few years out. A few more years out and most of us will have bought new PCs anyway. I take your point about the potential ease of use of a smartcard and the ability to move faster toward getting the technology out there -- but I just don't believe that it will play out that way. Anyway, we'll see!