I'll just throw this out there.
One of my clams (somewhere in this thread) was "The only time you
aren't connected is in an airplane." Every airport I've been in
recently has had wi-fi. I assume this is becoming standard. I think
Adobe is shelling out a lot of effort just for the sake of providing
people the ability to work in an airplane. There must be something
else to it that I do not yet see.
At 11:46 AM 2/5/2007, you wrote:
At one point about 2 years ago, i was asked to develop a simple CF
app that helped
managers write some 'weekly status reports' that were rolled up to
upper management
and then some of those items were rolled up even further up the tree etc.
it died a miserable death after a while because many of the managers
complained that
they wrote their status while traveling - sitting on planes, in
airports etc when they had no
connectivity... so yes, in my mind there are plenty of applications
for offline storage of
data and uploading when connected.
Mitch
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Jeffry Houser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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