<div>Lynn,</div>
<div>I think we all understand where you are coming from but Eric's points are valid. As you know I am using the PC version. At some point perhaps you freeze development of the phone version and move forward with the PC version as I think you have said having to make APRSIS run on the phone limits what you can do on the PC version. I believe APRSIS will become the standard for APRS PC software with all the work you are putting into it. The phone version that you support is heading for an end of life cycle anyway and I don't see Windows PC going away anytime soon.</div>
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<div>Tom<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldeffenb@homeside.to">ldeffenb@homeside.to</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">Feel free to take up a collection to pay me to take a leave-of-absence from my day job, replacing my full salary, paying the education expenses for me to go learn the Android or iPhone platform, and cover enough time to port all of my straight C and direct Win32 API code to the platform of your choice, and I'll be there. In the meantime, keep asking, but it'll take someone with prior-knowledge, extreme willingness, and LOTS of spare time to step up to the bar to deliver to your demands.<br>
<br>And even if they charged $50 a pop (which no one is likely to pay for an app these days) and 100 people anted up (highly unlikely), he'd probably end up getting $1 for every hour invested.<br><br>Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Don't worry, be happy! There's no $$$ in ham software!<br>
<br>PS. I do WinMo because that's what I already know and the phone I own, not because I consciously chose it over another platform. I've got enough to learn on the APRS side to have to learn a new development platform as well, especially for free.<br>
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<div class="h5">With all respect to what you have accomplished; the Windows Mobile phone is dead. Win7 may make a comeback and be a contender in the market. In regards to mobile phones, if the app doesn't run on Android or iOS right now, it's not a smart phone app. CE is a niche OS with less than 1% market share.<br>
<br>I do agree heartily with you on one point: Without a mapping application, APRS is virtually useless. I *could* plot out posits on a topo map, or I could plug in a laptop with USB and have it done for me.<br><br>FOR ME, the ideal smartphone app would do everything iAPRS does, except also allow full RF participation through either a RS-232 dongle to TNC or to a radio directly with an audio cable. Either one is very possible with the two major smartphone OSes, and there are applications that do both tasks. Just none that condense it all into ONE app.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldeffenb@homeside.to" target="_blank">ldeffenb@homeside.to</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">First, there is no such thing as a "Generic SmartPhone" platform. Every phone O/S has a different development environment, language, licensing, and distribution model. Even a "web application" may or may not work on any given SmartPhone browser...<br>
<br>And these recommendations ignore the RF aspect of APRS! Just because it's a SmartPhone, doesn't mean that Internet access will always be available.<br><br>APRSISCE/32 already runs on Windows Mobile SmartPhones (as well as Windows desktops)<br>
<br>Includes an offline-capable mapping interface using cached OpenStreetMap.org maps<br><br><br>Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
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