Keith Whaley wrote:
Keith Whaley wrote:
Rufus wrote:
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
On 6/18/2011 8:40 PM, Rufus wrote:
I find that hard to believe as stated. The feature set "as
implemented"
within the *current* releases as coded is dependent on the Gecko
engine,
but for a *new* product what we are talking about is a set of design
requirements and interface specifications - not the actual
implementation in code to accomplish the task. I like the SM
implementation...(completely) new code, same look.
I'll make you a deal, if you want to HIRE me, with a contract, weekly
pay, etc. And give me a device or two that I can test my code on. And
pay for any dev kits I need to do the work.
I will attempt this task.
Beyond that I don't think I (or anyone here) would have time or the
ability to do it.
Time, maybe. Ability? I'm certain they do. At least I'm certain the
development team does.
I may also require you to hire additional people to make this possible
(since I know very little about the mail side of things)
That's only fair, and I've thought about attempting it myself...but if I
do and am successful, I'll of course be keeping all the money...
...and I'd expect you to do the same.
Aha. What money? SM is free of cost at the moment. If they're expecting
to develop another SM from scratch for iOS style products, you're also
going to have to locate a pretty rich donor, to pay salaries and such
things.
They may give it away for free, but I still suspect there is some sort
of revenue stream somewhere for someone/thing/enterprise. I'm not
really sure how that works; someone here explained it to me once, but
I've since lost the bubble on what was said - something similar to RIAA
royalties based on site hits for specific browsers...but I won't swear
to that. In any event, the process has to be self sustaining in some
regard.
And in the end, you're going to expect Honda style reliability and
usefulness...which MUST come from the team who does the job anew. "Anew"
because what you want doesn't yet exist.
keith
Yes, but I could say the same about any product. Everything starts from
nothing, with nothing to start with but an idea.
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- Rufus
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