CAN SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE A PROGRAM LIKE SNAPBLAH

There is a whole bloody company operating with the name FutureDial. It has office space rent, employees' salary, website, hardware, and other expenditures to pay for. How do you expect them to give u a software anything less than $30. Even if they sold 1000 copies each month, it only gives them $30k, thats only sufficient to pay for the office space. Come on people..grow up.

 

always nice to see a reply that's helpful, sheesh.

 

Has anybody thought about who actually buys the data cables PLUS software?, if you think about it, most of the people who do the internet phone thingie or whatever power user with the phone other than placing basic calls, are somewhat internet/ computer/phone savvy AND if theyre REALLY computer savvy and plan to use PCS Vision in an abusive form, then theyre not going to pay for the software either, they'll probably pirate it or find it on one of those file sharing networks. HENCE the company, in this case FutureDial, loses money.

ok i gave my opinion. bye

 

Wow Monkee, you just have absolutely no idea about what you're sputtering do you?


Do you have any idea on what it's like to program something? Have you ever programmed in assembly, C+, Java, Cobol, Basic or hell, even HTML?


Just simply dragging and dropping isn't going to happen, ever, unless the cell manufactures standardize a menu system which I highly ever see happening. Futuredial has to make software that will interface with basically every new phone on the market. Hell, even accessing the 5300 and the 5150 requires a different interface even though they are both Sanyos.


And this Sanyo 4900 software that you speak of.. Are you sure it's even Futuredial software? If you haven't realized, Futuredial only makes one version of the software (for each application..). One copy of SnapSync will work with every phone that they support. There aren't 150 different versions of SnapSync. If you actually were to think about it, you would realize that this software is going to last you a lifetime, so long as Futuredial can stay afloat with a bad rep from cry babies like you. I've had the Futuredial software since it came out. With ONE software package I've been able to transfer all of my 4900 contacts over to my A500, then from my A500 to the 5350 for the short time that I had it. And guess what, as soon as they come up with the software patch for the 8100 I can transfer them too! Oh, and we'll beable to transfer the phonebook from my better half's A460 to her new 8100.. Come to think about it, 40 bucks is DIRT cheap for software that will last a lifetime.


Oh and another thing. Futuredial is HARDLY a monopoly. They aren't preventing any other companies to create the same software. In fact, Nokia, Moto and Sanyo all have their own software packages. Of course, they won't allow you to transfer a Nokia to a Sanyo.. Yet again why the Futuredial software rocks.


Cost of software.. Hrmm, ok you can go out and buy the software (SnapSync and SnapDialer combo @ RadioShack) for 40 bucks. Do you seriously believe that Futuredial get's all 40 bucks? Hell no. The software isn't magically transported into Radio Shack stores by truckers that work for free and then sold by employees that work for free.. I'll check what our company cost is on it tomorrow at work.. Whatever the cost is, expect Futuredial to be selling it for about 60% of that.


Grow up and get on with life. If you don't like the software, or if you simply don't have the mental capacity to install it and use it properly, return it and quit your cryin'. Better yet, if you think that it's soooooo easy to do, YOU create a program that will work with virtually any cell phone in North America that has been released in the last year..


I so anxiously await your reply.

 

As promised, I looked up the cost on the Futuredial combo software package that Radio Shack sells for 39.99 (which, might I add is a MUCH better deal than the $30 for each package that Best Buy has goin.. Plus the RS cables are 19.99 vs Best Buy's 29.99). Anyhow, Radio Shack pays 12.44 for the software, so after shipping and everything, expect Futuredial to get ~7 bucks or so for each copy of the software.. A FAR cry from the 40 that you seem to expect that they get.

 

god damn, you have that much time to spare to chew him out about this and that. what a way to spend a few minutes lecturing somebody on cost to retailers. man, that just cracks me up. i never knew that sales people get paid , nor did i know that there's a markup to software, wow. when this thread was started i dont think his/her intentions were quite that ill to deserve a response, i myself would like an alternative to futuredial, as 20dollars is a bit steep in price. that's right, i said it's steep in price. now dont bother lecturing me on where the money goes and how painful it is to code, i don't care. if i feel guilty about my post i'll just re-read yours.

and now i'll throw in some filler to make my post look important in informative. you see it doesn't matter that futuredial is great in the sense that you can go between phones, ie nokia to sanyo etc. because when i buy a phone i dont plan on replacing it. if it breaks i'll go thru the gruelin process of retyping the contacts into the phone. hell if it saves me 20bux i dont think it's that bad. are you really that popular that you can't settle for that? to some, 20bux is a bit of money

And now that i'm on my third paragraph i think i'll start to close things up. in short i didnt like that post because the topic states 'CAN SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE A PROGRAM LIKE SNAPBLAH', not 'please flame me because i dont want to spend my money on this software, and while you're at it explain where the money goes and why i'm a whiny punk for not plunking down the money for it right away' when i subscribe to threads on a HELP FORUM and read posts like this one, it pisses me off. please, be kind to everybody, if you want to post do it in the sake of helping others. this is a help forum, not a 'i'm better than you because i go thru cell phones like toilet paper'

thank you.

ps. my apologies to anybody who spent half as much time reading this as i did thinking about it.............................

 

Hey LA.

MoNkEE, if you don't want to spend the money, you don't have to. You can get an education and do your own programming

Dj3stripes, that works for you. You're not everybody. For some, the money would be well worth it, since the time they save from reprogramming their new phone's address book is worth more, so itcan be spent elsewhere.

For some, maybe having T-Mo or Nextel and being able to swap SIM cards is worth it. Now that would be nice if VZW had that option.

I myself change phones every 2+ years and have maybe 20 contacts in my addressbook, so reprogramming my phone would be easier than someone who has 100+ entries.

Having drag/drop programming would make alot of bloatware, and the differences between phones is greater than PC v/s MAC. More like MAC v/s Linux. I don't think phones are even that standardized.

It's more like back in the days of trying to get 3D games to work in a DOS enviorment. You literally had to write a different driver program for each video card in the market.

Yes, it would be nice to be able to run the phone like a MASS Storage Device, but I guess we will have to wait. If we could just drag and drop, how many ppl do you think would end up screwing up their phones? Until ppl are able run Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, or BSD on their home computer, I would hope phones will not have this capability.

 

Actually there is a better software called DataPilot wgich I think is better then SnapSync.
It way better. Check it out at DataPilot.com