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iRa - $899.99 iPhone App for Video Surveillance
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Hahahaha
thank you, this just made my day.
well said.
soooo, whos getting the new macbook???
thank you, this just made my day.
well said.
soooo, whos getting the new macbook???
This price really isn't bad if you look at like this.
1- Give each person an iPod Touch
2- Enusre each Touch has WiFi Connectivity
3- Sync all to the same iTunes account
4- Only pay for the app once
Looks pretty cool, but they should have a corporate edition and a private edition. If I wanted to monitor my house, etc they should have it for $25, but if I want if for a massive business, charge them $900.
Screen shots look pretty cool.
1- Give each person an iPod Touch
2- Enusre each Touch has WiFi Connectivity
3- Sync all to the same iTunes account
4- Only pay for the app once
Looks pretty cool, but they should have a corporate edition and a private edition. If I wanted to monitor my house, etc they should have it for $25, but if I want if for a massive business, charge them $900.
Screen shots look pretty cool.
I wouldn't be able to judge if that's a good price or not, I know nothing of the field, but that does look like a very slick and well made app!
But could he afford $900?
I know if I plopped down that much cash for an App, I'd expect sexual gratification in return. Or at least a dinner & movie.
Seems to prove my point:
Monitor the beach with this thing.
lol.
Gee, if we had support for Flash Player, maybe we could just view web cams through Safari.
But, hey, this is a cool App if it's as good as the Youtube video makes it look.
So, how do I hack into other people's cameras ... like the one in the girls' locker room?
But, hey, this is a cool App if it's as good as the Youtube video makes it look.
So, how do I hack into other people's cameras ... like the one in the girls' locker room?
Seems a bit pricy...
here's my thoughts...
The cost of an application should be proportional to how much man*skill*hours it took, not inversely to how many people it's useful to.
For some reason, programs like Final Cut Pro, Light Room, 3D Max, and Adobe's stuff, oh, and font sets (OMG, who on earth wants to pay hundreds for a gimmicky font that they'll use in the title for one or two articles?) all cost fantastically huge amounts of money. Because it's so useless, they chose to charge more. How about charge an appropriate amount for the man*skill*hours instead? These are the same people, probably taking almost just as long, that made the iLife suite... yet because the iLife suite has only useful features, it costs less, while the one with more features, mostly useless, cost more because so few people want it.
Yet... I think a lot more people would actually buy the program if it cost less.
... final bit of irony... common people chose to pirate the fantastically expensive stuff. They don't pirate iLife... they buy that because it's reasonably priced. They pirate FCP, because it isn't. I think it's proof that if the programs cost less, they'd be willing to buy them.
iRa better step in line and become proportional to the man*skill*hours. It looks like it's a $20 app to me. Seems about as complicated as Portal or whatever that remote desktop app for iPhone was.
here's my thoughts...
The cost of an application should be proportional to how much man*skill*hours it took, not inversely to how many people it's useful to.
For some reason, programs like Final Cut Pro, Light Room, 3D Max, and Adobe's stuff, oh, and font sets (OMG, who on earth wants to pay hundreds for a gimmicky font that they'll use in the title for one or two articles?) all cost fantastically huge amounts of money. Because it's so useless, they chose to charge more. How about charge an appropriate amount for the man*skill*hours instead? These are the same people, probably taking almost just as long, that made the iLife suite... yet because the iLife suite has only useful features, it costs less, while the one with more features, mostly useless, cost more because so few people want it.
Yet... I think a lot more people would actually buy the program if it cost less.
... final bit of irony... common people chose to pirate the fantastically expensive stuff. They don't pirate iLife... they buy that because it's reasonably priced. They pirate FCP, because it isn't. I think it's proof that if the programs cost less, they'd be willing to buy them.
iRa better step in line and become proportional to the man*skill*hours. It looks like it's a $20 app to me. Seems about as complicated as Portal or whatever that remote desktop app for iPhone was.
I think iRa went about this the wrong way. the iPhone app should be a low cost (probably free) application offered as a value add / novelty to sell more security units....sort of like all the other app store commercial/brand marketing..not a $899.99 monstrosity.
Imagine trying to get budget for this and saying IPod Touch / iPhone and security in the same sentence...in the enterprise environment.
Even if it was free, the practicality of this app is very questionable. All a company will see is an increase in worker comp claims and on the job injuries as their security guards trip all over the place trying to patrol and watch a screen at the same time.
Our security teams stay stationary and look at multiple, large 30" displays in order to display the most important cameras on rotation. Why would you want to reduce this to a 2.5" screen? What is the benefit for this to be mobile?
Imagine trying to get budget for this and saying IPod Touch / iPhone and security in the same sentence...in the enterprise environment.
Even if it was free, the practicality of this app is very questionable. All a company will see is an increase in worker comp claims and on the job injuries as their security guards trip all over the place trying to patrol and watch a screen at the same time.
Our security teams stay stationary and look at multiple, large 30" displays in order to display the most important cameras on rotation. Why would you want to reduce this to a 2.5" screen? What is the benefit for this to be mobile?
iViewer
Or you could use our CF iViewer app, hooked up to a cheap Crestron processor (there are affordable ones!). Then you could view MJPEG feeds, as well as control your equipment (IR, serial, and digital inputs). Only thing missing is gestures for pinch and swipe, but thats coming very soon You also have the option of a 100% customizable interface then too!
Or you could use our CF iViewer app, hooked up to a cheap Crestron processor (there are affordable ones!). Then you could view MJPEG feeds, as well as control your equipment (IR, serial, and digital inputs). Only thing missing is gestures for pinch and swipe, but thats coming very soon
You also have the option of a 100% customizable interface then too!I already have this. Launch control is running on my pc, use remote desktop to launch it. Just need a few ICBM for testing
Devs that charge that much do because big businesses will pay that much. It's as simple as that.
$899? You've got to be kidding me. I can't believe there's much of a market for this as an iPhone app.
all i can say is that would suck if you were browsing this app on the app store and u accidentally hit the 'buy' button. imagine the $900 itunes bill
just asking...
Doesn't the saying go more like this, 'useless as tits on a boar hog'?
Just wondering...
Doesn't the saying go more like this, 'useless as tits on a boar hog'?
Just wondering...
It's also the acronym for the Irish Republican Army, a terrorist organisation that planted bombs all around the UK a few decades ago in an attempt to make Northern Ireland independent.
Apparently, the PS2 can be used to track and interfere with missiles. It was in the papers around the time that console launched. Even with the homebrew scene, I've never seen an app enabling that feature.
Monitor the beach with this thing.
I think you are looking for this website:
http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/hb-pier-southside-southern-california_4874/
(not iPhone compatible)
They have had this service here in Japan for quite some time. You can access your webcam from your phone, control the camera's movement and hear sound from the mic on the camera as well as talk through your phone and have the speaker hooked up to the camera broadcast your voice.
It was designed for people who have pets and want to check up on and talk to them while at work. Its application was pretty silly here but definitely a cool service for those who want to spy or have that 007 feel.
If memory serves me correctly it was way way cheaper than 8 hundred and change.
It was designed for people who have pets and want to check up on and talk to them while at work.
Its application was pretty silly here but definitely a cool service for those who want to spy or have that 007 feel.If memory serves me correctly it was way way cheaper than 8 hundred and change.
Wow....
....I've had this functionality on my iPhone for over a year. Via Safari. I'm not going to post our cameras (6 of them, with pan/tilt zoom) web address here, but just so you know I'm not blowing smoke, go to the company's demo site (which is live) on your iPhone: http://www.ivcco.com/demonstrations/index.html
You'll see ON YOUR IPHONE, that it's currently raining in Newton Mass (which is where the company is).
$899? Please.
....I've had this functionality on my iPhone for over a year. Via Safari. I'm not going to post our cameras (6 of them, with pan/tilt zoom) web address here, but just so you know I'm not blowing smoke, go to the company's demo site (which is live) on your iPhone: http://www.ivcco.com/demonstrations/index.html
You'll see ON YOUR IPHONE, that it's currently raining in Newton Mass (which is where the company is).
$899? Please.