| Danso - Kevin from intelliPaper here. We appreciate the honest perspective. I'm always looking for ideas - what comes to mind for lucrative forms of intelliPaper? (If you don't mind sharing...) I'll jump around a bit here... USB offers a familiar experience for accessing data. Many markets respond very well to this experience. In our other products you can specific the digital content of the usb chip - and if you don't want to link to the intelliPaper servers for redirection (or even do something else entirely) we have a well-versed team to assist you. The SwivelCard product-line offers simplified features for mass production and adoption and doesn't offer these extended options. Read/write is coming to intelliPaper - and we're exploring that impact on SwivelCard. We're not there yet.
One concern I have is that if YOU can overwrite your own card before distributing it, should the person you give it to be able to do the same? I'd like to think you would be able to control that. We're currently refining the firmware, and exploring what methods work best for the average users to connect to the card to write to it without folding it. We'll likely come up with a small helper socket to assist in physical connection for reprogramming, but this is not refined yet. Yes. Hosted/online services can, and do, go down. If the cloud goes down, SwivelCard is offline. While not ideal, most online services experience this problem and we've taken steps to reduce this happening. We're willing to embrace this because of the flexibility it affords the product. Given that static content can be obsolete fast - we're willing to work with the cloud because of the flexibility it provides. |