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| Authored by: N_au on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 08:10 AM EDT |
It says a remote control as an iphone app. Heck I have been able to control my
Mythbuntu box for quite a while now with my Android tablet. Only it is wifi only
but some of the other Android tablets have an infra red sender so would be able
to use that as well. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: soronlin on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 09:27 AM EDT |
It's the other stuff that makes it mildly innovative. It can search for (or be
introduced to) devices to control and it can automatically download
personalities to control them. That's more than a universal remote can do, and I
think more than a phone app can currently do.
So if you buy a new DVD player, you just tap your iPhone against it and now your
iPhone can control it.
There is prior art for that sort of thing -- USB plug-and-play springs to mind
-- but not in one object.
Personally, I think they've just shot the invention dead. If it was open source,
then there could be hundreds of different controllers, and everyone could get a
piece of the action. As it is, why should any manufacturer bother to add
expensive hardware and firmware just so that the few people who own an iPhone
can replace the supplied (and replaced when the dog chews it) controller?
There's no up-side for them.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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