The iPad Plan
I generally don’t like talking about things before they are done, since as a small company our plans and priorities can change rather suddenly. Plus, our development style is pretty experimental. We try a lot of things and end up throwing away most of them because they don’t end up working as well as we initially imagined.
That said, a lot of folks have been asking about our iPad plans and rather than continually responding with no comment, I figure I would just lay bare what we know right now (which isn’t a whole lot).
Are we working on an iPad version of HippoRemote?
Yes.
When will it be ready?
When we’re happy with it.
Will it be a universal app?
We haven’t decided. We’re not thinking about anything other than making an app we love using every day.
So there it is — our iPad Plan. It’s not much, but it’s all we have right now.
Thank you for the info. Are you open to suggestions? I plan on my first iPad as a coffeetable device used nearly exclusively as a remote for my htpc. Love to see movie info on pad while watching.
Tom Dary
28 Apr 10 at 2:26 pm
Good to hear it’s coming. One feature that would be nice would be some kind of app launcher/switcher for the Mac. We don’t need that much space for a trackpad, maybe the bottom half of the portrait mode. So why not fill the upper half with home screen-style icons for Mac apps, although not with as much wasted space as the iPad’s home screen? On the Mac side, something like Quicksilver or Launchbar to handle actual the app launching, triggered by key macros that Hipporemote would send if an icon is tapped.
iGestured
29 Apr 10 at 10:07 pm