Jason gartner posted:If you have run this app on an iPad I’m not sure why you would want to go back to the remote? The functions are millions times easier to get to and you have a huge screen. I don’t get it
What Lew said.
It's the same reason iPad-like displays are a poor choice for controls in an automobile (though with less serious consequences of course). In the case of autos, they are here to stay for good, most likely (unless it's proved they cause a significant number of traffic deaths that could be avoided if controls were buttons/levers/knobs).
Of course there is no such life risk for our trains, so nothing will change this course if
MTH is not interested in investing in another piece of hardware.
"Alexa, back up the Norfolk Southern S2 switcher at 3 scale miles per hour. Alexa Stop!" (you have to talk fast and it needs to catch your voice(proces and send commands) really fast since Alexa can't really cant see or "feel" the couplers close like you can see it)
Hope it doesn't come to that, but that's more likely than them investing in a new remote, it would seem.
In the mean time, I will probably keep buying another backup remote from time to time as long as they are still available.
-Dave
