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Eye-Fi plays the waiting game with the SD association
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ChanceWord 
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 11:08 AM
I like you Eye-Fi. You have been great help and convenience regarding my wireless tethering capabilities and photo transfer. I originally bought your cards to tag my photos with locations (wasn't very good, a Texas Monster Truck Show listed as being in downtown Paris?), but as cameras get GPS, that is no longer needed. And now when they get wireless or bluetooth transfer abilities (LONG overdue) I wont need my Eye-Fi card anymore. Best of luck, if Iomega can survive after Zip and Jaz, you can too.
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 10:11 PM
I actually think it's high time that wireless connectivity be integrated into the SD card standard.
At the same time, I feel Eye-Fi's pain - it's an awesome product that pioneered the whole idea years before this new standard was announced!
I think a fair solution would have been for SDA to pay Eye-Fi a reasonable fee to license their patents. The alternative is a bunch of lawsuits that have a similar result except that when it's finally settled several years later the lawyers will have taken a hefty chunk out of the money that otherwise would have gone to Eye-Fi.
At the same time, I feel Eye-Fi's pain - it's an awesome product that pioneered the whole idea years before this new standard was announced!
I think a fair solution would have been for SDA to pay Eye-Fi a reasonable fee to license their patents. The alternative is a bunch of lawsuits that have a similar result except that when it's finally settled several years later the lawyers will have taken a hefty chunk out of the money that otherwise would have gone to Eye-Fi.
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 10:22 PM
ChanceWord, on 14 June 2012 - 11:08 AM, said:
I like you Eye-Fi. You have been great help and convenience regarding my wireless tethering capabilities and photo transfer. I originally bought your cards to tag my photos with locations (wasn't very good, a Texas Monster Truck Show listed as being in downtown Paris?), but as cameras get GPS, that is no longer needed. And now when they get wireless or bluetooth transfer abilities (LONG overdue) I wont need my Eye-Fi card anymore. Best of luck, if Iomega can survive after Zip and Jaz, you can too.
This is a really good point. Like any innovator, Eye-Fi's real competitive advantage is coming up with clever new products and making them work, rather than resting on their laurels and selling variants of the same product forever or living off patent royalties.
Patents exist for a reason, particularly if they're actually cool inventions which you worked hard to create and turn into real products, but lawsuits do not create great awesome new gadgets that are delightful and useful and make the world a better place.
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