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| Topic: | Macintosh version of ProntoEdit? This thread has 19 replies. Displaying posts 16 through 20. |
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| OP | Post 16 made on Friday May 5, 2000 at 02:26 |
Hi again... Took my own advice and emailed Philips. Guess what! Exactly same reply as Vincent got, word for word (including spelling errors). Does anybody at Philips actually READ their messages, or does an auto-reply churns that one out as soon as the word Macintosh is encountered?
You might like to know, by the way, when we asked the dealer for info about linking to a iMac, he was honest enough to say he didn't know as he was a Windoze man. Why didn't we call the Pronto helpline. We did... they said why don't we ask the dealer...
Pronto is a great device but customer "service" is sadly lacking, something Philips always seems to have been noted for.
Certainlylooks like we will be relying on RemoteCentral and its users for any help we need.
Thanks again all.
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| OP | Post 17 made on Sunday May 7, 2000 at 16:29 |
Tony Blunt Historic Forum Post |
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As a Mac user I don't find Philips reply offensive, there is probably a sound business reason not to develop and support a second set of code for a low-volume item. VPC 3.0 works fine for ProntoEdit, and various other PC programs I use. Better Philips concentrated on the Pronto itself than uneconomically trying to duplicate software to support the few Mac-Pronto users. The Mac rules, but lets not be offensive about it!!!
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| OP | Post 18 made on Sunday May 7, 2000 at 16:33 |
Daniel Tonks Historic Forum Post |
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Considering how slow development on firmware or ProntoEdit is going, I think co-developing a Macintosh version would practically grind the whole thing to a halt. Let's get the remote up to 100%, then worry about porting it to other platforms...
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| OP | Post 19 made on Monday August 28, 2000 at 23:56 |
John Turnipseed Historic Forum Post |
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A smart thing Phillips should consider doing is to Open Source the project and let those of us who are Mac Programmers and who, by nature, are Gadget Freaks, figure out how to get it working.
That way, Phillips expends little or no development effort on the Mac and can instead concentrate on other issues.
Just give those of us with the interest and the experience the ability and the informaion necessary to work on it.
-=- John
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| OP | Post 20 made on Tuesday August 29, 2000 at 21:02 |
If I could find the time I would probably be up to porting ProntoEdit to the Mac. Better yet, code it in Java so it could be run on any platform that has the Java Virtual Machine on it.
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