When will the TPM consumer market engage?
If the business market for TPMs is engaging and is growing, does anyone want to discuss when/how consumer PCs will be included. At some point the business adoption of an enterprise solution includes services to consumers or at a minimum allowing employee access to internal networks from personal/home computers. There is also a case to be made for Government pressure to have consumers use e-signature, national ID, e-bidding for contracts, and other electronic productivity initiatives. Also, one suspects there will be increased regulation/control of banking and finance over the next few years and that will included consumer interaction via the internet. An order of magnitude better key management approach will also be needed.
Might be a good question for this afternoon (consumer TPM usage). Assuming Wave survives another year, will they innovate in the consumer market or will the competition beat them to core solutions. At one time (years ago) SKS wanted to be the provider of the many applications enabled by TPM supported security.
Any thoughts. Perhaps there is a survey or two as to when consumers will be included (not sure what the metric is - TPMs on all PCs?) or if WAVE will be able to innovate adequately with finance constrained resources.
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