http://disqus.com/people/SteveTomlin/enFri, 16 Nov 2007 20:47:04 -0000http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/11/16/myChumbyIsHere.html#comment-13981As CEO and one of the founders of Chumby (and, yes, Susan Kare is another -- our founders/employees are listed on our site by chronological order of involvement), I wanted to weigh in. First off, delighted to hear you like your chumby -- and even more delighted that, unlike some others, you correctly understand it more as a "vector" than as a "finished product." Chumby is not finished yet. For example we're adding streaming Internet radio and better alarm/event capabilities and will be sending these new feature in a free, over-the-air software update to everyone's chumby. The point is that the chumby will *never* be finished -- that's what we hope makes us an exciting and a new direction for the consumer electronics industry -- we're furiously adding features and capabilities and, now, so is our developer community. We've tried to open it up as much as we can to allow the chumby to be the Firefox of electronics, where the community keeps making it better based upon the community's needs. But we will be out of pre-release, where we are today, and into general release and more ready for prime time in early '08.<br><br>BTW, Dave, maybe you didn't notice, unsurprisingly because it's currently sort of hidden functionality, that on most picture-based widgets, including flickr, you can slide pictures forward and back with your finger (the swipe); and with RSS widgets you can swipe up and down to go forward and back in reading a particular post in a feed.<br><br>Chumby-on. Again I appreciate the post and am following the comments.SteveTomlinFri, 16 Nov 2007 20:47:04 -0000