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From: PostmanPat on 13 Dec 2009 02:37 On Dec 8, 12:59 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: > On Dec 7, 10:47 pm, Marty H <hyt...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 7, 7:37 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: > > > > Marty H wrote: > > > > On Dec 7, 5:52 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: > > > >> Marty H wrote: > > > >>> On Dec 6, 8:22 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: > > > >>>> Jeff R. wrote: > > > >>>>> Still think $12 is steep? > > > >>>> Sure is. I think the most expensive app I have spent money on cost me > > > >>>> $8.99, but that one actually saves me money every time I use it. > > > >>>> Nev.. > > > >>>> '08 DL1000K8 > > > >>> what is a Tachometer worth..? > > > >>> or, what is a audible Tachometer worth? > > > >>> I need one, so "if" I had a iPhone/iTouch, $12 would be a bargain > > > >> Just about every motor vehicle I've ever owned has come with a > > > >> tachometer factory fitted. I find it hard to believe an iphone > > > >> tachometer could be used as anything other than a gimick for a vast > > > >> majority of the population. If you need one then maybe it is value for > > > >> you, but I struggle to think of any circumstance when a tachometer app > > > >> would be of actual non-novelty use. > > > > >> Nev.. > > > >> '08 DL1000K8 > > > > > you have never worked on, restored or rebuilt a bike/engine/carby > > > > then? > > > > No, and neither do the vast majority of the population. The ones who > > > do, have a tachometer. > > > So the worldwide production of Tachometers must stop now because all > > the people that will ever need one, replace one etc has dried up? > > No, you need to reread what I have written above, because I don't > think I said what you think I said. I never said that noone would > need a tacho. I'm sure there are thousands of people every day who > have the need to buy such a piece of equipment. But the majority of > them will buy a quality instrument. By quality I mean an instrument > which actually measures the engine speed, rather than an iphone app > which guesses it based on audible cues (which may or may not originate > from the engine who's speed is being measured), and even invites the > user to contribute their own guesses so that it can guess the engine > speed more accurately. I would call that a novelty. I say that > relative to other iphone apps, and especially novelty apps, $12 is too > expensive. If it was .99c I would buy it in a flash and measure the > engine speed of everything I could, but not because it was a useful > pursuit... > > >www.advrider.com Inmates: 116,705 > > (the most popular MC forum I know of) > > and I suspect 116,605 of them have motorcycles which are already > equipped with a tachometer which is far more accurate and reliable > than any iphone app. Why would they need another one? > > Nev..- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I dunno,Nev. There's a _lot_ of DR650s on ADV... :-) Pat |