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Post 5 made on Wednesday October 13, 2004 at 00:15
flipper2000
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On 10/12/04 20:02 ET, Don Stratton said...


WOW! Let me say it again... WOW! Thanks for
all the feedback!

Yea I surprised even myself with that.

The market for PDA-based remote control seems
to be quite a bit smaller than we had thought
when we began development over 2 years ago.

I would think this would grow over time too though. Also I would think that additional features integrated into it would expand the market.

Any thoughts on two way communication (set top boxes etc)

Long story short: I just can't see competing in
the Palm space right now. I am not satisfied
with our efforts on the PPC yet, so I am hesitant
to port Total Remote to any other platform. Some
time after the release of v3.0/v3.1 I will take
a very hard look at the market and decide what
our Total Remote future might be. Of course,
I may be overly critical of Total Remote; bear
in mind I know EVERY SINGLE THING WRONG WITH IT,
and you don't. It kind of colors my view and
makes it hard for me to appreciate all the work
we have done to date. ;)

I would say your being hard on yourself.

I'm pretty sure there is no way a text-based markup
language could possibly handle the IR, but I have
always wanted a GUI-less "engine" that could be
called by other programs, and that would work
extremely well with ANY programming language.

Sure why wouldn't something like below work? remember I don't know much at all about IR. The info below is not real obviously I am also sure it is not formed as it should be by someone like you. But I am fairly confident that it can be described well with xml.


User defined name here
36
300
50
50/
0000000111110000
Pulse
000000000111110100




Remember xml doesn't actually "DO" anything it just describes something. Now any transformation of the data for representation is possible rather easily on pretty much any platform through many applications. Anybody could use any xml enabled platform to present the data (flash, adobe svg, xsl, xhtml, vb etc....)

Your core would I guess be an api that was xml aware and when called execute the function described by the xml and probably return some xml.

This means you just write the api for each platform rather than using another file format, redesigning the interface etc..


Tell it to my "superiors". "They" think I'm a
time-wasting idiot for doing this. I come from
a "information only helps" perspective, and some
of "them" live by a policy of never telling the
customer anything beyond what comes in the product
manual. Classic case of engineers versus suit
dweebs.

I am well familar with this

I did not perceive any insult, and I am grateful
that you are so interested that you would take
the time to articulate your thoughts. The more
vocal users like you make it better for the hundreds
who read all this but don't take the time to post.
It's like a letter to your Congressman; I consider
one Total Remote user who posts comments likely
represents 100 that didn't post any comments.
Your words carry weigh with me!

Glad you think that way.

While I have yet to be notified officially, I
have been advised that Griffin has no intention
of creating our own, due to some ill-defined bugaboo
the suit dweebs perceive. Hijacking the PDA forum
here is about the best I could do. :/ It is
just unfortunate that there does not seem to be
a way for users to share skins and device files,
since that had originally been a core part of
our master plan.

As I said I would be willing to design it but can't justify hosting it. (would need to be asp platform).

Again thanks for your time, responsiveness and patience.

BTW anybody in particular to contact or just something through your site thanking them for having the good sense to hire someone like you.

Jason


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