Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[aleajactaest]

Where you speculate on my meanings, those are your speculations so I don't feel it is my place to answer your points.

Re dreams: Count any and all of the list of failures under the Spragues. The idea that there's a role for Wave sneaking in at the heart of TC is done. First, all the actors know the customer relationship and transactional opportunities are there and that they are powerful. Meanwhile, enterprise is a side-show that hasn't taken for nearly a decade and isn't smoking like wildfire even with VSC 2.0. The OS vendors control the device trust chess board and seem to want to administer the trust relationship with unique end users. Enterprises mostly haven't wanted to perform the role Wave intended for them.

Re Apple said no: Sounds like you agree. If you go and buy an Apple device, you can see the process. Your trust relationship is with them.

Re the Microsoft OS: If you wish to learn about the use of the TPM to protect the Windows OS via Bitlocker, I suggest you begin with this Microsoft site.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/bitlocker-drive-encryption-overview

On this site it says "BitLocker uses the TPM to help protect the Windows operating system and user data and helps to ensure that a computer is not tampered with, even if it is left unattended, lost, or stolen."

I just go by what they say. If you don't like my phrasing, apologies for not having a link to the RoT trusted definitions guide to nouns and verbs! I write using my own words. MS makes it clear that it uses TPM to help protect the OS via BitLocker.

Re Carriers and vendors: My point in mobile, which I think is also Armp's, is that incumbent actors use their supply chains and distribution networks to control access to the market. An innovator cannot easily bust their way in. This is why Sprague said it would take a government mandate to change the mobile market - long after the point was made here. When you have a useful general rule that seems to explain why things often don't happen as you hope, it is worth integrating it into your philosophy by default.

The notion that carriers and vendors have a trump power over device makers has held sway since I started talking about mobile in 2002. So when something changes, please wake me up. I suggest not holding your breath in hoping that the device-makers will force TC into the market. Perhaps the only way it might happen is in the form that a carrier/vendor is the TPM's controller. But I have not one whit of interest in vendor control modules (VCMs), even if they are called TPMs by mobile operators.