Hi there, I've been active in my own thread asking a couple questions relating to a consumer device that I wish to pursue. It's one of several things I've worked on, so I'd like to use this opportunity to toss out a question of sorts:
For one project, an influence has been the Bloomberg Terminal. The concept relates to aggregating large amounts of publicly accessible data, using a proprietary system of sorting and arranging, and then present the customer with a batch (folder?) of useful information relating to their business pursuits. It's kind of like a business intelligence / lead generation platform, but that's simplistic and misses the value of the concept.
Now, how this relates to hardware! As a musician I'm very familiar with the iLok USB-key concept used for certain software suites (some of which have gone cloud-based). This also gets back to the Bloomberg Terminal. Would pursuing a "Subscription Service Requiring Desktop Box/Key" type design be an initial Negative or Positive?
I do feel like this isn't exactly a hardware question, but with the amount of data and investment that would be involved to build the system in mind, having a physical, subscription component seems practical. I suppose that's about the extent I can describe at this point without getting explicit about how it works, what it works with, and who the target audience is/will be. My apology if it came out as a bunch of jibberish. Please feel free to ask for clarification or point out examples similar or drastically different. Thank you for your time!
For one project, an influence has been the Bloomberg Terminal. The concept relates to aggregating large amounts of publicly accessible data, using a proprietary system of sorting and arranging, and then present the customer with a batch (folder?) of useful information relating to their business pursuits. It's kind of like a business intelligence / lead generation platform, but that's simplistic and misses the value of the concept.
Now, how this relates to hardware! As a musician I'm very familiar with the iLok USB-key concept used for certain software suites (some of which have gone cloud-based). This also gets back to the Bloomberg Terminal. Would pursuing a "Subscription Service Requiring Desktop Box/Key" type design be an initial Negative or Positive?
I do feel like this isn't exactly a hardware question, but with the amount of data and investment that would be involved to build the system in mind, having a physical, subscription component seems practical. I suppose that's about the extent I can describe at this point without getting explicit about how it works, what it works with, and who the target audience is/will be. My apology if it came out as a bunch of jibberish. Please feel free to ask for clarification or point out examples similar or drastically different. Thank you for your time!