At 11:10 AM 2/4/2007, you wrote:
Many users are still disconnected. Nomad users are still common place. Most sales people are getting out o the road in order to create opportunities as opposed to staying in the office. Few rural areas are 100% covered by high speed (wifi,gprs,gsm,3G) access. The concept of disconnected apps is becoming more and more intriguing for business and the demands for such apps more and more numerous.
I can't fathom needing an Internet connection while driving. Nor can I imagine going to a client / potential client who doesn't have Internet Access. Is it really that common?
The prospect of using an embedded db like sqlite(open source, cross platform dll) to store data, Apollo being able to natively exploit that data directly on the client when disconnected, and update the central data store when connected; is one simple but enormous opportunity.
Apollo offers an embedded DB? I haven't heard that yet.
I'm seriously hoping that Apollo is not just for partially disconnected applications.
I still don't get it, though. I'm open to hearing the ideas. Of course, I still think such a conversation would be better off on the Apollo Coders list.
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