@Maurice re:
"You had me up until I came to the form.
Way too long and way too much *required information.
Too bad."
Really? So you'd be willing to learn a new language (Lua), API,
methodology etc., but if a form has a few too many fields for your
liking, you bail on the whole shebang?
Is this IxD elitism? Is it a privacy thing? Do you believe that the
extra 30 sec. it might take to fill out a form outweighs the benefits
of being able to develop iPhone apps w/out having to learn Obj-C?
I don't mean these questions to sound rude - I'm honestly curious. Do
you do this a lot w/ stuff you find on the web? In life in general?
I'm curious, because if there are a ton of users like you, whom when
presented w/ the keys to the kingdom as it were would nay-say it and
give up because a form had 5 too many fields in it, then I'm just...
wow. I don't know what to say. To me, that's like meeting someone for
the first time, and after a few minutes saying "Excuse me, I'm sorry,
but you just talk a little too much - I don't have time for people
like you. Goodbye." and walking away. It's like Moses and the serpent.
Look and live! Yet they would not look, because the form was too long.
I get the privacy thing, but there wasn't anything in there that sent
up any flags for me. It is pre-beta, and they're probably really
curious as to who is most interested in their SDK so they can lean
towards supporting their biggest user-base, so they'd really like you
to fill out a bunch of required fields. Small price to pay I say for a
free SDK that does what this does.
Am I totally off-base here? I'm just really, really shocked at a
response like that. Please - enlighten me!
Brandon E. B. Ward
brandonebw...@gmail.com
UI • UX • Ix Design
Flex • Flash Development
Portfolio: http://www.uxd.me
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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