Hi SKWOODWIVA! I found your posts here by deep searching for items mentioning the Meizu miniplayer M6, and seeing a photo of yours showing four of them apparently in your possession. I'd like for you to contact me, please, about buying one of those units from you for significantly above market value. My email is jack at aboutjack dot com.
FYI, working as a product strategy consultant to Tsinghua Tongfang Co. Ltd. in Beijing in late 2004 I pitched the idea of a made-in-China competitor to the iPod nano to the company's CEO. I believed that a cost-controlled (no more than 600 RMB in China) but well made product that offered a user interface as responsive and speedy as Apple's clickwheel UI would be a hit in third world markets. The result was me being funded with a hardware and software development team by THTF, and during 2005 developing what I then called the 'Crossbar' touch interface, and the underlying control electronics for a hierarchical menu based function and file navigation platform.
THTF chose to not take the product to market, and instead arranged a licensing deal with Jack Wong, the founder at Meizu. The first miniplayer launched in early 2006, and through following iterations went on the sell about $2 billion in the global market.
I'm putting together a little 'museum' wall in my home to display many of the most successful products I created during my 50+ year career, and I do not have an example of the miniplayer M6 — and cannot find one anywhere, other than sitting in your photo! Millions of them sold just over a decade ago, but zero units are on eBay or anyplace else I can find.
So, can you help an old man out?
Let me give one of those M6 units you have there a respectful, proper home?
Much appreciated!
Jack C.
