[moneydance] iPod Touch

[Michael Schulz]

Sean,

if I would have to make the decision: go for option 3 !!!
I would be even be willing o pay for this.

Regards

Michael


On 17 Jul 2008, at 04:14, Sean Reilly wrote:

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> On Jul 16, 2008, at 20:39 , Rich Goodwin wrote:
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>> When Java runs on it?  MD is java-based so ... in theory that  
>> should be
>> all you need.  I would expect the user interface to handle the
>> uniqueness of the Multi-touch screen and provide inputs to MD
>> appropriately.
>>
>> Does it not work?  Sean would likely be more than willing to use your
>> phone for lengthy testing... ;-)
>
> I've got an iPod touch running the 2.0 firmware and already have a  
> developer certificate from Apple for writing iPhone/iPod apps.  I  
> see three approaches to working with Moneydance on the iPhone:
> 1) xpenser + jott -> Moneydance extension.  This allows a simple way  
> to record an expense via xpenser.com which can interact with  
> jott.com, twitter.com, SMS, email and IM.  The nice part about this  
> is that it works with the 98% of people who don't (yet) have  
> iPhones.  See this thread for more info:  http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1208303387
>
> 2) sync with a third party iPhone app.  The beta palmsync extension  
> to Moneydance used to work with the SplashMoney Palm app, but I was  
> never completely happy with the result.  SplashMoney is now  
> available as an iPhone app, but I think the synchronization works in  
> a different way.
>
> 3) write a custom iPhone app.  Given what is on the iPhone App Store  
> now I think I could come up with something pretty competitive.  The  
> trick would be synchronizing it with Moneydance, which would have to  
> be done over the local network or a secure "drop box" type of system  
> on moneydance.com.
>
> I think that #3 is the most interesting option from a development  
> point of view, but #1 is the most widely applicable and therefore  
> more appealing from a business sense.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
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