The problem is money and stewardship. It's like building a house on land you don't own.
What I have done is publish here and in other places many many ideas to show obviousness - like: location based ring tones; using carrier cell structures to organize the world's traffic information into an accessible form i.e. every phone can keep a list of the cells it travels through on a daily commute and download and sum the most recent transit times for the remaining part of that list to alarm branch choices on the route and departure time required to reach a destination on time.( A $50 non-gps equipped phone can do this, as could a tower triangulating phone that is inexpensive and safe enough to trust to an elementary school child and the bus driver.); use of an accelerometer to dial the phone eliminating the need for a keyboard or a touch screen, especially if the phone chassis is designed to swing the gravity vector as the user pushes around the edge of the screen when the phone is placed on a flat surface (a hard bump in the middle and soft pad 'feet' on the edges make this happen) as well as separate case that can hang from a work environment at eye level and give an iphone like capacitive touch screen device user the ability to index through procedural information by striking a paddle (or petal) around the edge of the phone with an insulated tool (this has applications for things like and similar to automotive repair or field installation; a merchant beacon, particularly useful for crowded open air markets, that allows specific customers to have awareness of availability and location of items of interest without having to read a map because the phone has an inexpensive compass (or simulates a compass - several ow cost ways taught); a lost child finder that can also be used to play a modified game of hide and seek, the list goes on and on and on and on... I like toggled roll calls and a variety of percussive instrument sounds triggered by accelerometer based audio devices in ones shoes... anyway to save everybody the trouble of patenting them and denying them to ordinary people by pricing them as if they are exclusive, unique, clever or anything but obvious extensions of know principals using newly accessible integrated sensor and audio processing capability. Companies that have the horsepower to actually serve people with products can get handcuffed or tied down the way Gulliver was in his travels with restrictive patents on things that are not particularly original. I see and always have seen the Android Challenge as a way to show obviousness on any duplicated entries. I am trying to pitch in an keep a first to market company from locking other companies out - just think if Apple patented every application of audio and accelerometers in the same device! I am making a case that all these applications are obvious with a bit of awareness of element capabilities, and none should be held hostage. To that end, this is about the most pompous post you will see from me on this board. Pompousness implies some superiority of knowledge or insight. Familiarity, that may be perceived as mocking, implies some shared understanding. The tone is deliberate. That is what I am doing as I learn to program. Ed On Jun 26, 6:51 pm, Mongo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What can non-programmers do to develop application ideas. Hook up with > code writers, pitch to an existing company (which ones), learn to > program (I don't see learning how to program in my near future). > > Any ideas. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
