Subspace iphone app (chat client)

[carat]

hi im carat. most of you prolly know me by my walkby troll visits to TW, DSB, sometimes HS and other zones. the main zone i play is EG.

 

anyways, i would like to make a request for an SS iphone app. now, this does not necessarily mean you could PLAY an actual flag game of EG on the ipad itself, no what i am looking for is a chat client for IOS. If this could be imported into the ios appstore no doubt SS would be more populated at all times with more people chatting and less people playing.

 

thanks, carat

[Dr Brain]

http://forums.ssgn.net/topic/25423-android-chat-client/page__view__findpost__p__272037

 

I'll reiterate here: buy me a phone and I'll write a client.

[carat]

ur retarded. sell it for 10 bucks on the appstore. i guarantee at least 20 ppl from ss will buy it. there, 200 bucks. now go get yourself an iphone 4.

[★ CRe]

You can chat for free on your computer. Why would you pay 10 bucks to talk on Subspace?

[Dr Brain]

ur retarded. sell it for 10 bucks on the appstore. i guarantee at least 20 ppl from ss will buy it. there, 200 bucks. now go get yourself an iphone 4.

 

I consult at a rate of $150/hour. If it takes me 20 hours of work (a low estimate, by all accounts; I'm talking about a polished product here, not a piece of crap) then I have to sell at least 300 copies to recoup my normal fees.

 

As CRe indicates, I think $10 is too steep a price. You'd probably have to sell it at around $2 to be profitable.

[Avast]

Lol 150$ for your consultation. No one's advice is worth that much.

 

People who use the phone a lot, and are not at home, would probably use the app if it was 10$.

[Dr Brain]

$150 is on the low end for electrical engineering consulting. A lot of firms have an hourly rate of $300, and some go as high as $500.

[★ Lynx]

I know market data engineers who are contracted at around £2,250 per day (on six-month contracts). $150 for a technical role is not unheard of. Anyway, Dr. Brain I have an iPhone and a lot of spare cash - I've been considering coding a client myself but I really lack the interest - and I am mediocre at best when it comes to programming in Obj-C. When I get a new iPhone (around Sept probably) I can post you my old iPhone 3GS 32GB. It's not in great condition, but it'll do for the task? Edited July 9, 2011 by Lynx

[JoWie]

It may be easier to write it as a web application. Note that an web application could not use the current version of ASSS' chatnet directly. You could make a small modification to ASSS to support websockets or deploy a proxy. The latter method obviously has a lot of downsides (and already exists).

 

Oh, do not forget that it costs $100 a year if you want to publish applications in the apple app store.

Edited July 9, 2011 by JoWie

[Dr Brain]

I'm not very informed about iPhones, but I assume that would be fine for development. I'd have to pony up the $100 though (and a phone contract if necessary for buying apps). I'll figure all that stuff out if and when necessary.

[Avast]

I'm not very informed about iPhones, but I assume that would be fine for development. I'd have to pony up the $100 though (and a phone contract if necessary for buying apps). I'll figure all that stuff out if and when necessary.

 

Sorry so how do you inform people about electrical engineering? Is it an individual or a company? And what exactly do you do, tell them how to build a circuit?

[Dr Brain]

Company of 2. I work with a Mechanical Engineer. No, I build the design (which is more than just circuits) for them. We typically provide completed prototypes ready for manufacturing.

[Avast]

Company of 2. I work with a Mechanical Engineer. No, I build the design (which is more than just circuits) for them. We typically provide completed prototypes ready for manufacturing.

 

So why do you call it consulting when you design and build prototypes?

[Dr Brain]

Because that's what it's called?

[Avast]

Because that's what it's called?

 

Consulting

1.employed or involved in giving professional advice to the public or to those practicing the profession: a consulting physician.

 

Advice

1.an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.: I shall act on your advice.

2.a communication, especially from a distance, containing information:

 

Now I hope you know the difference between actions and words? Building prototypes is action. Advice or consulting are words, in which someone else takes the action and builds the prototypes themselves based on your input.

 

I wish people would have learned more in University than just their job description.

Edited July 9, 2011 by Avast

[★ Lynx]

What about when a consulting physician administers an injection?

[Tembest]

Newbs.. My lawyer charges $10,250 a day

[🜲 PoLiX]

Consultants regularly go into companies not only giving advice, but also helping create their plans, ideas, etc. That is part of the job. Anyone could come in and say "you need to change this and that", or "do this and that", but people prefer someone who will also get involved and help them. You might even say jumpstart the action.

[★ Xog]

Consultants regularly go into companies not only giving advice, but also helping create their plans, ideas, etc. That is part of the job. Anyone could come in and say "you need to change this and that", or "do this and that", but people prefer someone who will also get involved and help them. You might even say jumpstart the action.

 

Exactly. If I hire a consultant to advise me on what should be done in a given situation, I'd expect them to know what they're talking about. If they know what they're talking about, why wouldn't they be able to do the job themselves? I think that's the difference between a good consultant and a bad consultant.

 

Avast is just being an idiot.

[Dr Brain]

I don't know about other fields, but I think consulting in EE is a broad term for a company/person that is working for someone else (i.e. they don't own the end result).

[Avast]

Consultants regularly go into companies not only giving advice, but also helping create their plans, ideas, etc. That is part of the job. Anyone could come in and say "you need to change this and that", or "do this and that", but people prefer someone who will also get involved and help them. You might even say jumpstart the action.

 

Exactly. If I hire a consultant to advise me on what should be done in a given situation, I'd expect them to know what they're talking about. If they know what they're talking about, why wouldn't they be able to do the job themselves? I think that's the difference between a good consultant and a bad consultant.

 

Avast is just being an idiot.

 

 

That much is obvious. A specialist in an area of knowledge, or a field of work, who consults, would obviously have to know their field, if it's engineering, then they would know how to build things. This still doesn't mean consultants build things for people. Then it becomes contract work? doesn't it? The company hired them for more than consulting, if they are doing the actual work. Instead of having their own team of engineers do it, and the consultant working with them.

Edited July 9, 2011 by Avast

[Dr Brain]

And since we're quibbling about useless things, engineering isn't about building things. That's manufacturing. Engineering is designing things so they can be manufactured.

[carat]

Okay you guys r retarded. All i asked for was a simple app. Brain in all honesty is being a huge dick. He cant spare 300 bucks for something that would greatly benefit subspaces population.

 

Or take it from those tw donation shittitty thingies. Or stop those weekly cash useless prizes and fund it towards this app. No ones gonna fucking ejaculate over winning 5 bucks and then prolly paying 3.50 to get it shipped to you. But an app, would make me climax and prolly everyone else with an iphone ejaculate. No joke.

 

Psssssst. Why the fuck am i perma ip muted from TW <\3

[spidernl]

Okay you guys r retarded. All i asked for was a simple app. Brain in all honesty is being a huge dick. He cant spare 300 bucks for something that would greatly benefit subspaces population.

 

If he's being such a dick for not paying 300 bucks to write an iphone app, what are you for not being willing to pay him 300 bucks to do it for you?

[JoWie]

It sounds nice and I have done it on an ipod touch, but it is not worth the effort.