mammon, RE: creating a product years before there was a market
The market existed. Unfortunately, the players that controlled the space did not like someone coming in and taking over as the new boss. It wasn't a question of there being no market. Security threats were prevalent for years and we all could have used something like Wave's solution.
Instead, you should be upset with the likes of MSFT, Intel, AMD, Atmel, IBM, HP, etc for stalling this technology with stupid technical ramp-ups like TPM 0.9, TPM 1.0 and TPM 1.1.
These were all useless since they were not used. And now, TPM 1.2 is defaulted to "off" and shipped on still a minority of units sold.
If anything, Wave has been the ONLY company that has wanted to solve the issues that plague our everyday computing experience. No one else gives a hoot except Wave. I am not upset with Wave at all. I am not in that camp that it was early. I am in the camp that "the others screwed us all, teh consumer and enterprise" for years. Even now, with rampant security breaches and costs of billions a year to the taxpayer or corporation, we are still waiting for the solution that has existed since the late 90s. Unreal.
Well it seems to finally be happening. So reach down and grab a pair because if you think it gets easy from here on, it doesn't. Wave is now going to be an even bigger target for the competition.
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