Jack Coates wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:
I'm curious why PPC's with the Telcanto app haven't gotten more traction.
because the PocketPC platform sucks so bad(*) that it makes Palm look
good -- but in switching to it, people spent time going over all the
things that they didn't like about PalmOS and hoped PPC would fix, so
they don't go back to Palm either. Instead they buy a Blackberry or a
Symbian or a Motorola phone, or walk away from the whole PDA mess and
carry a moleskin notebook.
As a dedicated remote control, something like a PocketPC would have to
be stable, fast, and untethered. I've never changed the two AAA
batteries in a Slim Devices remote. A PocketPC would have to be put in
the cradle every night.
(*) got an ipaq 4150 which loses all data when the battery dies, which
is every day. It also crashes if it's woken from a locked, sleeping
state by a calendar reminder. Pocket Media Player can't play MP3
streams, Pocket IE can't render anything, if my WAP isn't available it
burns its battery looking for other WAPs and asking me repeatedly if I
want to join them. Wanna get on tmobile? How about now? Now? It's still
there, how about now? Is this a good time? How about now?
/I heart my Blackberry 7780.
Dear god. I would rather shoot myself than give up my Treo for a
Blackberry. The usability and extendibility on those things is
horrendous IMO.
But, back to the topic at hand, Windows Mobile is definitely lacking,
but with the opera beta and my custom HTML skin for slimserver it
makes a very effective remote. Putting the remote back in to the
docking station once a day is hardly a downside for most people. I'm
also missing how a remote control not being able to play music when
controlling the music player is a problem, but you may have just been
ranting about Windows Mobile and not talking about the subject at
hand. Whatever the case I can play mp3 streams just fine on it, I
just never would want to.
And.. to answer the question that was asked, Telcanto wasn't flexible
enough for me. I don't use album art or list the album in the id3
tags on most of my mp3s. I also want the playlist to be displayed on
the same screen as the "now playing" screen. Give me an macro
language that can configure it as I like and I'll use it. Oh wait, I
have HTML already, no need to spend money for it =).
-- Mike
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