On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Uncle Kridley</b> <<a href="mailto:krid@otisbean.com">krid@otisbean.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Kamisamanou Burgess wrote:<br>> I don't like that the list is loaded with stuff like<br>> "IR portRemote control applications Would be great to use openmoko as a<br>> Hamony remote controller."<br>> I don't quite see the necessity in running you tv with your cellphone
<br><br>I don't have much use for a fancy TV remote, but I would very much like<br>to use my phone as a "remote" for my Squeezebox music system<br>(<a href="http://www.slimdevices.com/">http://www.slimdevices.com/
</a>). It would be great to be able to frob the<br>web UI while sitting on the couch, since that's a lot more expressive<br>than slowly crawling through the two-line display on the box using the<br>IR remote.<br><br>
Just because you don't want to do something with your phone doesn't mean<br>that the rest of us share your feelings. This is open source, and it<br>moves forward because people work on what interest them. The end result
<br>is something that's stronger for everyone.<br><br>--<br> --------------------------------------<br> Dirk Bergstrom <a href="mailto:krid@otisbean.com">krid@otisbean.com</a><br> <a href="http://otisbean.com/">
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http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Well put and understood. However, adding extra hardware to the phone so
it can do things not within the sensibility of the majority of users is not a good practice. I too would enjoy interfacing with different devices over the internet, wifi, or bluetooth and would expect such software to be developed by someone someday.
<br clear="all"><br>--<br>Sayonara,<br>Kamisamanou Burgess<br><a href="http://www.kamisamanou.net">http://www.kamisamanou.net</a>