Well articulated, but the credibility of your assertion is questionable as its not clear how you are measuring the 'drive to expel' and 'shrinking collection of True Believers'...

Thanks for your input, though. You are part of this community and deserve a say.


Actually, it *is* working. Thanks to your suggestion, I am now aware of the comment/suggestion forum, and will be starting this thread over there (if there's not a mod that will move it!). So at least it is helping a little.

Anyone that's interested in continuing the discussion is more than welcome to come join!


Great post! Very insightful, and well written.

The reason for this thread, was simply to improve the environment for development. I've read many posts where users have posted their apps or hacks and have been praised. Incidentally, this seems to have the effect of encouraging design and development, and many thanks. This is consistent with what I've come to understand: people like encouragement, people like praise, people like to feel valued and appreciated. By shaping the environment to be 'more' encouraging will likely mean more (and higher quality) development.

Of course, the opposite is negative, put-down posts (not just complaints necessarily), which seem to start arguments. Based on the response to brontide's latest post and frank.wagner's, I can only think that if a fraction of this energy were put into discussing possibilities, documenting features, or encouraging developers, the tablet experience would be all the better for it.

I may be the minority with this particular viewpoint....



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Capt'n