Product Idea: USB Flash Drives

[barray]

I'm curious, how does sticky foam mitigate a dry/cold solder joint?  Perhaps by applying additional pressure to the joint?

I assume so, perhaps the vibration gradually allows the solder to crack over time and the padding applies just enough pressure to make it somebody else's problem.

This is very interesting, thank you very much for pointing it out!  I'll take some time to become acquainted with various homomorphic encryption schemes.

Beware, there be dragons!

My only concern would be that getting someone doing the final testing remotely at the required level of quality and attention would end up costing the same (or even much more) as shipping the devices around the world more than once.  Plus, in that case the entire order fulfillment system, including the customer support, would have to be performed on a remote site as well, which would probably become really messy really fast.

Yeah, I think it's only viable if we have somebody there as part of the team willing to do such a thing, otherwise the benefits die off real fast as you suggest.

That accident will surely produce a ripple effect.   It seems that the ship still remains stuck in the Suez Canal?

Yes: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000

Best estimates suggest another 3 weeks (if all goes well). If cargo starts falling off or they damage the ship pulling it out - all bets are off. As if there were not already part delays, this will surely add to the problem.

I am really sorry that I cannot find that forum thread again so you can read it yourself.  However, once a device becomes commercially viable, it has already become profitable and self-sustaining.  At that point, it would be rather questionable to pretty much hand off the device to somebody else?

Yep. As in your case, you have decided to run with it anyway and are bringing it into small volume production.

I also have no idea, really.  I've already exhausted all options known to me.

So I think we operate under the assumption that we won't have any input from them. I guess the next step will be to move this discussion to somewhere more robust. I will checkout the possibility of setting up a forum tonight and see how that goes...