It’s time…
By Wesley Mullings | February 12, 2008
I think it’s time to anounce what’s been going on with Hanley Wood. Now that the exclusivity clauses are satisfied, I think I have allowed the program to perform at its best uninhibited for three years. It’s time to declare the reports of its performance.
I think my first stop is over with my nemeses: the ‘professionals’ at www.remotecentral.com. These guys are a brood of seemingly disgruntled technicians that have not much better to do than hound other people for not being them or for their not being someone else. I wish these guys didn’t have so much negativity about them. It might actually be a healthy forum!
In the four-plus years that my single thread has existed over there in the effort to approve a design that I thought would help the industry as a whole, I have been made into an icon of sorts–some neutral and some negative, about my wiring design, HA-Ready. I stopped responding to them six months after starting the thread, then a year after the thread, then two years. In between, I would stop by to read the latest on what these guys would say about me and keep moving on quietly.
My take-away from HA-Ready is that the current market is not ready for HA-Ready. The features are not what they are looking for, nor does the market care to know about. The market wants equipment; in particular, gadgets. iPhones, iPods, widgets, and plugins are the flavor of the month. Even appliances and set-top boxes (STBs) are anxiously being put aside for all-in-one solutions that can transform into new machines at a moment’s notice. Everyone is anxiously awaiting to replace their cable boxes with cable- and satellite-tuning media servers on home network. Cellphone talking and network quality gave way to MP3 and games, which gave way to cameras and video, which gave way to keyboards, which now gives way to touchscreens.
In all, it seems that everyone is attempting to consolidate how many gadgets they have by selecting those that do more while looking good doing it.
I’m not disappointed in this turnout with HA-Ready. I think the worst thing I could have done is not try it at all.
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It’s time…
By Wesley Mullings | February 12, 2008
I think it’s time to anounce what’s been going on with Hanley Wood. Now that the exclusivity clauses are satisfied, I think I have allowed the program to perform at its best uninhibited for three years. It’s time to declare the reports of its performance.
I think my first stop is over with my nemeses: the ‘professionals’ at www.remotecentral.com. These guys are a brood of seemingly disgruntled technicians that have not much better to do than hound other people for not being them or for their not being someone else. I wish these guys didn’t have so much negativity about them. It might actually be a healthy forum!
In the four-plus years that my single thread has existed over there in the effort to approve a design that I thought would help the industry as a whole, I have been made into an icon of sorts–some neutral and some negative, about my wiring design, HA-Ready. I stopped responding to them six months after starting the thread, then a year after the thread, then two years. In between, I would stop by to read the latest on what these guys would say about me and keep moving on quietly.
My take-away from HA-Ready is that the current market is not ready for HA-Ready. The features are not what they are looking for, nor does the market care to know about. The market wants equipment; in particular, gadgets. iPhones, iPods, widgets, and plugins are the flavor of the month. Even appliances and set-top boxes (STBs) are anxiously being put aside for all-in-one solutions that can transform into new machines at a moment’s notice. Everyone is anxiously awaiting to replace their cable boxes with cable- and satellite-tuning media servers on home network. Cellphone talking and network quality gave way to MP3 and games, which gave way to cameras and video, which gave way to keyboards, which now gives way to touchscreens.
In all, it seems that everyone is attempting to consolidate how many gadgets they have by selecting those that do more while looking good doing it.
I’m not disappointed in this turnout with HA-Ready. I think the worst thing I could have done is not try it at all.
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Whew! It’s been a minute!!!
By Wesley Mullings | November 11, 2006
I’ve been working very hard with my new OCP project. Our first church, Elmendorf Reformed Church in Harlem is up at http://www.elmendorfrca.org/. In the middle of a day off (which is becoming rarer by the day), I decided to go back to remotecentral.com just to see what’s going on. Well, to my surprise, people are STILL talking about HA-Ready! I think if I announced a booth at CEDIA, people would come out just to meet me, cuss me out, say how stupid HA-Ready is, and how it won’t work in a million years! The last one is funny to me because I know that HA-Ready requires one to think like an architect instead of an electronic system installer. This is why HA-Ready can answer questions that these guys couldn’t, but I digress…If I’ve learned anything at all from this experience, I’ve learned that ALL press is good press. If they want to talk about me behind my back, or even to my face, so be it. As long as HA-Ready becomes the key word that it must be, I don’t mind being the scapegoat for its existence sake.
I think I’ll plan that CEDIA booth once we get NAHB and NAR support.
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