On 12/16/2011 12:23 AM, flipper wrote:
Computers cost around 10x as much as a radio. So the extra cost of
modularising is low in percentage terms for pcs, but high for radios.
And the savings of modularisation for pcs are medium to high, but for
radios are mostly low.


Yeah, I just don't see it but, hey, if someone has the guts and
capital then that's what free enterprise is all about.

NT

Actually, I see a distinct possibility that, that may just happen.

If you examine ebay closely, you will notice the chinese and HK are
direct marketing to the USA, using NO middle man here. Like any
developing industrial nation, the life blood is innovation and "going
where no man has gone before."

Once China realize it has no need to let corps profit, here, from their
sweat there, they will have the equip. and cheap labor in place to bring
communication receivers and xmitters up to the current age, and damn
cheaply ... plus, they wont have the overhead of the "politics" and
proprietary thinking which plagues our present lazy and monopolistic
companies here ... anyway, just a possibility.

Regards,
JS