Michael, We are targeting the iPad first because of it's at the beginning of a steep growth curve and because it has a large enough screen to house an IDE!
Best, Jerry Daniels Create iPad web apps with Rodeo: http://rodeoapps.com On May 12, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Michael Kann <mikek...@yahoo.com> wrote: > David and Jerry, > > The customer could avoid having to buy any Mac hardware if they could design > their app on the Rodeo website itself. The website could act as a development > IDE and a simulator both. When you are done designing your app then anyone > could download the app from the Rodeo website. This would be very good > advertizing for Rodeo because people could see all the apps made with it. > > One question for Jerry: > > Why are you targeting the iPad and not the iPhone. I know you like to stay > ahead of the curve, but it seems like there are a lot more potential > customers for iPhone. > > Mike > > > --- On Wed, 5/12/10, David C. <davidoco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: David C. <davidoco...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement >> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> >> Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 10:55 AM >> This is more of an editorial comment >> rather than adding anything much >> of real value to the discussion, but here goes... >> >> RunRev offers some awesome products and this list community >> is just >> about as good as it gets anywhere. With that said, I can >> add that >> although I sincerely admire what you folks have planned for >> Rodeo, it >> is highly unlikely that I'll ever become a customer or >> user. >> >>> You don't need revServer, On-Rev, revPlugin, revMobile >> or even Revolution >>> IDE to use Rodeo. You don't even need to get online >> storage for you web >>> apps as that's included in Rodeo's small monthly fee. >> >> What it *does* require though, is the purchase or ownership >> of Apple >> hardware (the iPad for sure and/or a Mac computer should >> the Windows >> version not come about) and I have no intentions of ever >> "going there" >> again. >> >> Apple's restrictive and unwarranted policies have cost them >> (and >> Rodeo) at least one customer for the future. As much as I >> enjoy the >> functionality, ownership of the iPhone even feels a bit >> "dirty" to me >> now. An Android phone will most likely be in my future. >> >> I've become a customer to many of you here that offer Rev >> related >> products... just purchased the conference dvd's, should >> have a >> RevServer account by the end of the week and have plans to >> upgrade to >> the Enterprise edition and/or add RevMobile sometime in the >> near >> future. >> >> I try to be supportive to all of you offering Rev related >> products >> that I need or can use (like Rodeo), but not at the expense >> --no pun >> intended-- of owning or purchasing Apple hardware in the >> future. >> >> A sad state of affairs, huh? >> >> Best regards, >> David C. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage >> your subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
