Originally Posted by
AdamDZ
That's almost $200 a year in service fees, and at $99 the device isn't cheap. It's also not designed for a bike.
For a bike you'd need something that can't be easily identified and there are not a lot of places to hide something like this on a bike. Does aluminum attenuate signals? On a carbon bike you could stick it inside the frame somewhere if it was small enough.
With thin, flexible circuits coming I'd envision one that looks like a decal
THAT would be the real money maker! Whoever can bring that sucker to the market and have it working reliably, will become rich beyond their dreams. I can see a small flexible solar cell as part of that surface-mount package. And with the kinds of adhesives that are available these days, it could be totally weatherproof and thief proof.
Somehow, we have to even the odds against scumbag bike thieves.