Remote control app: iOs? Android? Let 'em know what you want

Remote control app: iOs? Android? Let 'em know what you want

  • Android

    Votes: 22 81.5%

  • Apple iPad

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • Total voters
    27
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Barry_Green

Moderator
As you may know, the DVX200 (and the forthcoming UX180, etc) can use a remote-control app called the R.O.P. Currently that app is only available for Apple iOs devices. I would like to gather some opinions as to what our typical DVXUser would prefer -- do you need the Android version? Are you satisfied with just the iOs version? Gimme some feedback and I'll send it to the factory.
 
Android version would be excellent! Please bear in mind, that Android has approx 80% marketshare worldwide (yes I know its 86% and includes the cheap smartphone line up too). But there are many Android and Windows Tablet users (like me) and therefore a R.O.P. for both (or all three) platforms is of course the best. Because:
I work in the Windows and Android universe...
Thank you.
 
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Are you really telling me that Panasonic is telling 80%+ of its potential DVX200 customers that the camera doesn't come with a remote control, but they can buy one for an additional $600+ USD? Has Panasonic lost it's little corporate mind?

I mean really -- if Samsung sold you a TV and told you if you wanted a remote you could buy one for another $600 USD, would you do it? Or would you buy a competing TV that came with a remote and was therefore $600 USD cheaper?

Said another way, to me it looks like the DVX200 doesn't have any remote control features at all. Because if I can't access them, they don't exist.
 
I am currently a Sony camera user but am interested in getting the UX180 or the HC-X1 also a Windows and Android ( phone and tablet ) user with no Apple products at all. I would like to see an Android version of the App.
 
This is a no-brainer that Panasonic can figure out with somewhere between 5 minutes and 4 hours of research depending on how market sensitive they want to be.

Look at Android and iPhone global shipments and you can see what needs to be done. If global figures aren't market sensitive enough, then the numbers are available by market as well. Oh sure, one could think that camera operators side to one phone technology over the other, but given that global shipments are 2:1, just do it.

2015 global shipments
iPhone - 304 million units
Android - 700 million units

The fun fact for nerds like me is that means that somewhere on this globe they are making about 4 million phones per business day. It boggles the mind.
 
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I do not mind, ios or Android, never mind
main Support for multiple USB stick
which are available in Europe
(not only ASUS USB N 53B!!!)

thank you
 
For me it is not a question of the manufacturer. For me, as a one man Filmcrew, it’s a question of the size! The iPad is to big for my pocket. An iPhone would be great. A small anroid device would be great also.
 
Android has approx 80% marketshare worldwide
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Yes, but that doesn't mean that Android has 80% of the marketshare of DVX200 users who want a remote app. The two are not related. As a quick example, 10 years ago when the HVX200 hit the market, the computer market was 95% Windows, 5% Mac. Yet at least (at LEAST) 50% of the HVX200 buyers were Mac users. I traveled worldwide doing HVX200 BootCamps, training people on how to use their HVX200s, and of the thousands of people we trained at those and at other seminars, the market share was approximately 90% Mac, 10% Windows. When we got to the editing section, pretty much nobody would raise their hands for the Windows sessions, they (practically) all wanted the Mac sessions. This despite Windows holding a 95% installed base market edge over the Mac.

Apple's products are, in my experience, grossly overrepresented among professionals in the video industry as versus their products in the marketplace as a whole. As such, regarding this particular app, overall market statistics are meaningless; the only stats that matter for this app are the market composition of DVX200/UX180/UX90 buyers. Accordingly, I thought it would be illustrative to poll the actual DVX200 users and prospective UX180/UX90 users to see what they use and how the market actually sits. We only have 10 responses so far, so it's far too early to know. I'd like to get at least a few hundred responses if possible so we have a greater sampling pool to draw the picture from.
 
Android.....and Barry, you've used a great example of time. At that time, Final cut was the bomb, now it seams Premier is making the most noise so it could go back and forth over the next few years what will be the most popular......so I'd say you must have both.
Thanks for taking the time to do this!

Jim Martin
EVSonline.com
 
Definitely Android! Phone and tablet!

Also Barry, I'm starting to see more and more articles from Production houses and Trade show interviews about Apple falling behind the times, many are shifting to Premiere on the Win-tel platform. Not to say that Apple could not change that, but the momentum has started for Win-tel from what I'm reading.
 
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@Barry:
As you sayd, it is 10 Years ago. Things has been changed. FCP is no longer the only solution. Adobe with Premiere is more and more popular. So today the Windows and Android users are much more than 10 Years ago! And from my feeling a worldwide acting company like Panasonic should offer a remote for all platforms!
I'm a DVX200 user and work in the Windows and Android world.
Do not have any Apple gear.
 
I'm not arguing whether Wintel has arisen or not. I'm just looking to get a snapshot of what actual DVX200/UX180/UX90/HC-X1 buyers are using, right now.

By the way, just writing a post saying "android" or "apple" doesn't help; you gotta go vote in the poll... :thumbsup:
 
i would vote on this but i would love to have the app on my iphone 5s and there isnt an option to vote for iphone
 
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