Comments on DragonBe's PHP blog: Killer iPhone app from Apple: Keynote Remote

Actually you do want to be able to change the view...

2009-01-12T13:49:00.000+01:00

Actually you do want to be able to change the view. In landscape mode you see the current and the next slide. In the other view you see only the current slides but also the presenter notes.

another thing missing is some way to point on the screen. currently i prefer "remote buddy" .. i hope either the remote buddy guys reverse engineer the API to beef up their app, or that apple takes a page from what these guys have done.

It's a still a great app because it extends the Ke...

2009-01-09T21:27:00.000+01:00

It's a still a great app because it extends the Keynote functionality for a mere $1. Free's up the presenter to walk around and still have speaker notes and control of the slides.

Good points on #3. Having the presenter time would be a great addition.

I can see why they didn't allow the shake, presenters talk with their hands a lot and would go by 10 slides before they noticed. The flick is more likely to not allow accidental slide changes than the other methods.

Also, presenters don't need to switch views between presentation because the slides sizes are standard and don't change from landscape to portrait like photos.

I think this is far from a killer app.#1 why not b...

2009-01-09T12:00:00.000+01:00

I think this is far from a killer app.
#1 why not bluetooth support?
#2 it does not switch the view via the accelometer
#3 it does not show the presenter time
#4 it requires flicking, it should support shaking and a single button click to move between the slides (flicking requires two hands)

For a first attempt at making money from an itunes app, this is pretty lame ..