[Thumbgps-devel] Promoting the Macx-1

[Jau-Yang Chen]

Dear Eric,

Thanks again for your kind support. It's our responsibility to provide the
good performance product with better quality to our customers. It's really
the great reward for all of your help to promote Macx-1.

For dead-reckoning and 1PPS issue, we will double check and come back to
you.

The data sheet of GR-601 is also attached. You are much appreciated to
review and improve it.

Best regards,

JY

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric S. Raymond [mailto:esr at thyrsus.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:14 AM
To: cjy at navisys.com.tw
Cc: 'veronica'; tcf at navisys.com.tw; thumbgps-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net;
'lily'; gloria at navisys.com.tw
Subject: Promoting the Macx-1

>From Jau-Yang Chen <cjy at navisys.com.tw>
>                 It will be great and much appreciated if we could have 
>a  channel to sell this winning product in Amazon.

Working on it.  But no result yet - I may have to go through several links
in a chain of references.

> We plan to put an article as attached on our website for advertisement.
> Could you please review and comment?

Have reviewed.  You can quote any of that you like.

>                            It will be helpful to promote Macx-1 USB 
> GPS receiver if you could also put it in the website of your 
> SIG/project.

Done. Find it on <http://catb.org/gpsd/hardware.html>

Also note that once we confirm a U.S. retail partner for you guys I will
promote the product on my blog and Google+.  As I have over
18,000 blog and G+ followers with a heavy concentration among programmers
and engineers who are likely GPS customers, this is exposure many vendors
would kill for.  I have never plugged a product before; this will be your
reward for a job very well done.

The market you will be selling the Macx-1 into is much more interested in
detailed technical information about the device than you are probably used
to.  The datasheet for this device should list the exact uBlox chip or
module it uses, the NMEA version, and (most importantly!) a link to
programming information about the GPS engine - uBlox's technical manual on
programming the chip would do.  

One of our people already mentioned turning off the dead-reckoning feature
so the device won't emit PPS after it has lost lock. One reason to link to
the technical manual is so we can determine if this is really an issue; it
might be the firmware stops emitting PPS in dead-reckoning mode, and that's
exactly the sort of detail Macx-1 customers will be interested in.

Another one of our people, Dave Taht, has inquired about customized cases.
That gives me an interesting marketing idea.  Look at the GPSD project logo
at <http://catb.org/gpsd/gpsd-logo-small.png>. That's a Linux penguin with
GPS satellites orbiting it.  You might want to think about doing a batch of
these with the logo on the case - with a little promotion they'd probably
sell like crazy to Linux fans.

My offer to review and improve the English version of your technical
documentation is still open.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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