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it seems like the Kensington Security Slot is an interesting market that Kensington pretty much have a monopoly over. Does anyone know how they got to this poin
by pclark 16y ago
it seems like the Kensington Security Slot is an interesting market that Kensington pretty much have a monopoly over. Does anyone know how they got to this point?
- smackfu 16y ago"The designer met with each of the original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and convinced each computer manufacturer to add a small, security slot in their laptop designs. Compaq was the first OEM to incorporate the Kensington security slot in 1991." http://uk.kensington-press.com/news/article.aspx?id=232&core=E http://uk.kensington-press.com/news/article.aspx?id=232&... The also are very open with the details, not trying to charge a licensing fee or anything: http://us.kensington.com/html/1356.html http://us.kensington.com/html/1356.html
- Kadin 16y agoI'm not sure how much money Kensington really makes from it. They make locks that fit in the slot, but so do a lot of other people now. And I don't think that they charge licensing fees -- it's just a slot in the plastic, occasionally (in better implementations) backed up with sheet metal. What surprises me is that nobody thought to standardize on something like it sooner; I remember the pre-Kensington PC locks and they always sucked. Most of them sold you big plates and tubes of epoxy that you were supposed to attach to your computer's chassis, and then loop a cable through.