Comments on: Open source model for hardware? http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/30/open-source-model-for-hardware/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:52:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Daniel Udsen http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/30/open-source-model-for-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-1013299 Daniel Udsen Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:22:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/10/30/open-source-model-for-hardware/#comment-1013299 This is one of those things that sound cool until you realise that it's posing no change to how standardized the componets inside even the "cooler then grilled cheese" products like the iphone or the kindle is. You can buy an iphone in components at basicly full scale massproduction prices form the guy's that make the iphone, and the hardware world is pretty open and have been that way since compaq reverse engineered the IBM bios. This is one of those things that sound cool until you realise that it’s posing no change to how standardized the componets inside even the “cooler then grilled cheese” products like the iphone or the kindle is.

You can buy an iphone in components
at basicly full scale massproduction prices form the guy’s that make the iphone, and the hardware world is pretty open and have been that way since compaq reverse engineered the IBM bios.

]]> By: hardware http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/30/open-source-model-for-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-1013119 hardware Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:56:09 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/10/30/open-source-model-for-hardware/#comment-1013119 To thrive in this next wave, hardware manufacturers will have to switch their thinking. Their job is no longer just to dream up ideas — it’s equally important, maybe even more vital, to seek out innovations from users To thrive in this next wave, hardware manufacturers will have to switch their thinking. Their job is no longer just to dream up ideas — it’s equally important, maybe even more vital, to seek out innovations from users

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