Can you imagine what would have happened if Apple had bought up...

Can you imagine what would have happened if Apple had bought up the key developers of LCD panel display technology?  Only Apple products would have flat screens - great for Apple no doubt, but the whole world has benefitted from the broader proliferation of flat panel displays into all sorts of fields.  And how much less progress would have occurred in the tech given that Apple could have focussed firstly and mostly only on products it needed.  True, Apple may have split the company and its tech off into a wholly owned subsidiary - it would have had to do so in fact - but I think we would have seen a lot slower development picture than we've had.  

Hence I doubt that the same thing would be allowed to happen to AudioPixel tech.  Because EVERYBODY will want access to flat panel speakers for their products, from cars to medical devices to billboards.

If any single big player is allowed to buy it (by Fred and ourselves), it will risk a far smaller and slower market share emerging, and more of its profits being ploughed back into further development from the revenue by its new owners, at the expense of profits being paid out to current shareholder in direct returns and dividends.   

Plus Fred has said repeatedly that he has turned down very large cheques already, because he wants to see the tech reach its full commercial potential before he sells his holdings.  Undoubtedly Fred and others would end up owning shares in the buyer, so we will all want to be sure any buyout creates more opportunities rather than fewer.  Thus I suspect that no current player is appropriate to own AP if it is already a big player in any of the prospective markets being served.  It will have to be a supplier to all of those markets, and not a competitor to most of its customers.  Too many licensing arrangements to negotiate!  But that still leaves quite a few big players in the market.

I think we will see the launch of AP enabled consumer products starting this year, followed by an explosion of interest and very rapid uptake by lots of markets.  It will be just too transformational a technology not to be in from the start I think.  While it is inevitable that others will come up with alternative technologies, for the time being we have both the tech and the IP all to ourselves.  

As soon as the market recognises where AP actually is at right now I imagine that the SP will start to respond positively.

Here's hoping!