[Gta04-owner] Invitation to indicate interest in next batch of GTA04A5 boards

[Sven Dyroff]

> What about lego mindstorm, the people who are active there spend huge 
amounts of time and money...

Hmmm, a very interesting example of an successful tool for people with the 
combination of technical interests and money. Worth to take a nearer look 
at it...

> Or what about an open universal remote control for anything, where the 
only promise is that users will contribute and lots of proposals for 
applications? 

Hmmm, slowly I get an idea what the secret behind its success could be. 
It's not the device itself. It's not to have the "eierlegende 
Wollmilchsau" (German term for an all-in-one device suitable for every 
purpose). No, the essential point is the design of the interfaces and 
their usability that the device has. As far as I can remember over all 
previous discussions within this list, this point never had been expressed 
when describing the benefits of the GTA04.

When doing marketing, did anyone bring up the fact, that...
- it has an MMCX connector? Does any other smartphone has one?
- It has an standard USB connector? All other smartphones had proprietary 
ones, until the EU forced them to again creating a new one...
- Over the standard USB connector you can simply ssh in or simply drive 
any other protocol that you want?
- It uses a) an widespread type of battery and b) allows you to easily 
remove it? Not self-evident today!
- It still has an IR-eye, being freely programmable?

So if in addition GD spends an easy to use I2C-port to the GTA04A5 - IIRC 
already announced at least for use with external keyboards - and perhaps 
some other nicely to use interfaces, that could be *the* killing marketing 
argument. Especially if they are also available when using an recycled 
Freerunner case with only one or two more hand-drilled holes within it...  
;-))

Best regards
   Sven
 

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