On Wednesday 23 June 2010 16:24:39 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > i can go on and on, but... with devices being almost always on battery, > and your examples very visibly and annoyingly degrading the experience... > (and often NOT being about AC/Battery.... but about where the device is > at that point in time)
You may be right. But, on the other hand, you may not be. I want the system to enable great and innovative ideas for apps. Unfortunately, that also means it enables crappy and useless ideas. So be it. Let the users decide which app behaviours they prefer: the apps the users prefer will win. It should be up to the app developer. If they have a neat idea for how to adjust behaviour dependent on whatever they feel are the appropriate parameters (power, temperature, connectivity, time since last update, what I had for breakfast...) then they should be able to do it. The system should provide the information the app developer needs to implement their ideas and the users will judge them. They may even be developing an app which is completely different to the way anyone on this list expected the device to be used. Great! Graham P.S. Personally I think that after the hype about the iPad has died down, tablets will go back to being kitchen devices -- normally sitting in a charging rack, picked up for a few minutes to walk around the kitchen measuring out ingredients, etc. So, they will spend most of their time connected to power, although not necessarily to a high speed network. I might be wrong -- I have been before :-) _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
