Replication in Months, Not Years
Monday: August 27, 2007 6:42 AM
Have to seen this month’s issue of Popular Science? The lead article discusses how China has gotten to point where they can reverse engineer just about any product. Before, we go there let’s review the Enterprise 0.0 model for innovation protection. In the old days, you could protect your products through patents and other intellectual property services. Geography and communications also created protection by reducing the speed at which information was transmitted. Today, information passes around the globe at the speed of light. Access to capital was also a protection mechanism since enormous amounts of capital would be needed to build a manufacturing plant. As we move toward Ray Kurzweil’s, Singularity, these barriers can be overcome in a matter of days or weeks. The case in point is the lead product in the Popular Science story, the iPod.
The little gadget was bootleg gold, a secret treasure I'd spent months tracking down. The miniOne looked just like Apple's iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn't. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers. The miniOne's first news teases—a forum posting, a few spy shots, a product announcement that vanished after a day—generated a frenzy of interest online. Was it real? When would it go on sale? And most intriguing, could it really be even better than the iPhone?
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What happens in a world where one of the hottest products can be replicated, improved, and brought to market in a matter of months?
Don’t forget our good friends in China have a lot going for them
In 2007, The number 1 language of the Internet will be Chinese
In 2050, the number 1 economy will be Chine. Wait, an update: the new date is 2030 as predicted by the 2006 World Bank Article
80% of Wal-Mart’s Suppliers are from China
Every 24 Minutes a Factory Opens up in China
Each year the United States sends 65,000 students to the Intel Science Fair while China sends 6,000,000 Students
The combined GDP of China and India will exceed the seven current wealthiest nations
China is run by Engineers and Technologists while the United States is run by Lawyers, need we say anything else.
Have to seen this month’s issue of Popular Science? The lead article discusses how China has gotten to point where they can reverse engineer just about any product. Before, we go there let’s review the Enterprise 0.0 model for innovation protection. In the old days, you could protect your products through patents and other intellectual property services. Geography and communications also created protection by reducing the speed at which information was transmitted. Today, information passes around the globe at the speed of light. Access to capital was also a protection mechanism since enormous amounts of capital would be needed to build a manufacturing plant. As we move toward Ray Kurzweil’s, Singularity, these barriers can be overcome in a matter of days or weeks. The case in point is the lead product in the Popular Science story, the iPod.
The little gadget was bootleg gold, a secret treasure I'd spent months tracking down. The miniOne looked just like Apple's iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn't. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers. The miniOne's first news teases—a forum posting, a few spy shots, a product announcement that vanished after a day—generated a frenzy of interest online. Was it real? When would it go on sale? And most intriguing, could it really be even better than the iPhone?Read Story
What happens in a world where one of the hottest products can be replicated, improved, and brought to market in a matter of months?
Don’t forget our good friends in China have a lot going for them
In 2007, The number 1 language of the Internet will be Chinese
In 2050, the number 1 economy will be Chine. Wait, an update: the new date is 2030 as predicted by the 2006 World Bank Article
80% of Wal-Mart’s Suppliers are from China
Every 24 Minutes a Factory Opens up in China
Each year the United States sends 65,000 students to the Intel Science Fair while China sends 6,000,000 Students
The combined GDP of China and India will exceed the seven current wealthiest nations
China is run by Engineers and Technologists while the United States is run by Lawyers, need we say anything else.
