Re: [MLO] Small MLO re-design; Huge gains.

2012-12-11 Thread Mark Levison
One last thought - many of us (myself included) see grand ideas for MLO as we make this wonderful suggestions we have to remember that MLO is small company that is funded from application sales. As we compare it to Evernote (or other big players) these are venture (or vulture) backed companies. The

Re: [MLO] Small MLO re-design; Huge gains.

2012-12-11 Thread Nat Gross
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Mark Levison wrote: > Nat - while I sympathize with your ideas: > >1. It's Andrey's show not mine nor yours >2. The rules engine isn't written in Java - as best I can tell >probably Delphi >3. It kills offline usage for most us (I fly and travel a

RE: [MLO] Small MLO re-design; Huge gains.

2012-12-11 Thread mlo
I agree that hotspot proliferation has been rapid but I think it's slowing down. Growth may continue to be rapid in the air travel business but a lot of the places without wifi (my car, my yard, my bedroom) have no plans to provide it in the foreseeable future. Nat Gross wrote: Hi Dwight;

RE: [MLO] Small MLO re-design; Huge gains.

2012-12-11 Thread Dwight
Interesting that Evernote's businesses model is the opposite of Mlo's; Evernote gives you the cloud storage for free and charges for an offline copy. I'm okay with that off the synch process is fast, automatic and effective. m...@grantsmiths.org wrote: »Nat: Interesting approach and one worthy

Re: [MLO] Small MLO re-design; Huge gains.

2012-12-10 Thread Mark Levison
Nat - while I sympathize with your ideas: 1. It's Andrey's show not mine nor yours 2. The rules engine isn't written in Java - as best I can tell probably Delphi 3. It kills offline usage for most us (I fly and travel a lot often without Wifi access) 4. Latency kills - if you're

Re: [MLO] Small MLO re-design; Huge gains.

2012-12-10 Thread Nat Gross
Hi Dwight; I agree that 99% is an exaggeration -for now- but we are getting closer to that as more wifi hotspots become easier to access for free for a variety of reasons. Of course in my scheme of things current syncing technology would still be available, but would not need be upgraded to newer t

RE: [MLO] Small MLO re-design; Huge gains.

2012-12-10 Thread Stéph
And I work offline *a lot* of the time. I need my data and functionality on my devices rather than online. Interesting idea, but it would be a deal-breaker for me. Now if the non-GUI elements were on my local device, I wouldn't have a problem with decoupling them from the GUI. Stéph -- You r

RE: [MLO] Small MLO re-design; Huge gains.

2012-12-10 Thread mlo
Nat: Interesting approach and one worthy of some discussion. But I want to immediately resist the suggestion that 99% of MLO is used while online anyhow. It's certainly not true for me. If a redesign were to make offline usage difficult or awkward, I would find myself paying high fees for data netw