Re: [NTLK] Experience with NewtSync and a suggestion

On Aug 29, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Javier Monllor wrote:

> After visiting the MyDreamApp (http://www.mydreamapp.com) website I
> had an idea and thought I'd ask the list for your input. I understand
> that development for the Newton is done by the community and we can't
> expect a company to take this on since there is no way of making any
> money out of it. Wouldn't it be possible then, as this is an
> essential piece of software if the MP's life is going to be
> lengthened, for everyone in the community to give money to a
> developer to solve this problem? Suppose there are 500 people in the
> community that give $10 (maybe $20) dollars to a professional
> developer. Wouldn't this be enough to entice him to write a fully
> working and useful syncing software for OS X? We already have two
> open source initiatives, maybe he could start working from those.
> Hey, maybe some member of the list would be willing to do it !
>
> This may be a naive suggestion, but I know I would gladly pay to have
> my MP flawlessly sync to my iMac.

I'd be in for $50 at least
My Newt is kind of languishing since I got an Intel Mac since I
cannot run classic and use NCU any more
A native OS X app would be awesome

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