Neal, Desktop, laptops and (separate) keyboards are not going to away, especially in the professional world. There are just too many tasks that are better and quicker (time is money and money is king) done with a large screen, and well designed physical keyboard and mouse. For that matter, pen and paper have not, and will not go away either. So lets accept that MLO will still have to work on all these devices. But the origins of this discussion where that releases of MLO for new platforms needs to be balanced with its continuing functional development.
Mark, and a few others: regarding justifying a wish for a new feature by giving the business need it solves, it not really necessary. People experienced with a tool deserve the respect that their intuitive desire for a new feature, like more text formatting in Notes is correct. When more than a few ask for the same feature, its is pretty much confirmed that there is a need, even if not analytically defined - and the fact that most of the world does not work with simple text editors, but prefer and use the capability to improve the visual attractiveness, and visual navigation and accelerated understanding that goes with richer formatting capabilities seems to pretty much put any doubt to rest. Lastly, it always amazes me when someone says they want something like a simple calendar view, or more text formatting capabilities that there are bunch of people who take that to mean a request for a full featured Outlook like calendar or a Word like program (or physical keyboard only request) and then go on to bash the idea as silly and as far too technically complex for the MLO team to implement (and then elsewhere also say that people should not make technical decisions for the MLO team - which is just what they are doing). These these people have taken the suggestion immediately to an extreme, indeed a worse case scenario, and decrease the chances for rational dialog around what scale of features is really needed in this case which probably would reduce the technical complexity by 80%, while still giving 80% of the new capability being asked for. But regardless, there is one point I agree with many on: we hear far too little from the MLO team about their concrete future feature and release plans. I know there are lists of future features they are considering, etc. but with not dates, etc. Some of those have been on the list for years, and what actually gets done seems fairly random to the outside world. And no-one yet has disagreed that the MLO team have focused on new platforms and not on improved functionality the last 2 years or so, for better or worse... So that is my two cents. As always I look forward to the continued creative replies... On Sep 23, 5:51 am, Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > People are entitled to their opinions. I tried to explain it to them here > but I'm not going to take any guff about it or get mocked. Sorry, just not > going to happen. > > Anyway, I tried to explain this to Andrey. And to be honest, I no longer > really care. Besides, I think Andrey will figure it out dealing with the > IPad crowd... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" 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/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
