Well, all good discussion, but I advise that you do not hold your breath
for "open firm/software in the K4," or basically any access at all.
It's just beyond what any manufacturer can do. I suppose Eric, who is
noted for his business skills, could start up an "E-tunes" app store for
the K4, with developer standards, testing, and the like. I doubt that's
remotely close to the top of his To-Do list however.
Having just had my 79th birthday yesterday [thanks for all the HB's!], I
remember when Heath came out with an analog computer at what would have
been the beginning of the "Science Hobbyist" revolution. Without the
Internet, there were no Email lists of course, but the number of "I did
this and it didn't do what I expected" inquiries was way more than they
expected. Fortunately [for Heath] the customer base was very rapidly
exhausted and the Heathkit Analog Computer silently sailed into the sunset.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
PS: Anyone who tells you "79 feels just like 78" is smoking their socks.
On 6/3/2019 4:02 PM, Jeff Scaparra wrote:
Missed reply all.
At some level even if they do "only" have apps they will have this problem.
App developers will need to be able to modify and test things. Also I doubt
that there would be many apps if this is a separate process than mainstream
linux/windows. why would a hobby developer want to build a separate thing
just for one pretty expensive radio when they could just build the app for
linux or windows and support everyone.
Maybe they have some trick to make app onboarding easy.
My 2 cents
Jeff N6SDR
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