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Originally Posted by Billfred
Our FLL teams have played with Commander on my iPhone. Ignoring the cost of an iOS device (and/or my nerves about letting even our FLL kids play with my daily-driver iPhone), we've found it to be frustratingly limited in capabilities, laggy, hard to get a feel for, and lacking basic remote operation concepts like "when I let go of the joystick, you stop the motors". That combination of cost, risk to personal equipment, and inferior capability is a demo-wrecker.
I can't compare old and new pins because we only have new ones (we bought our kits around the first of June). Since I have the kits here for charging, I went over and popped a pin in for testing. The connection is stronger than LEGO, and I could not remove the pin by pulling on the free end of the pin the way you can with LEGO. However, a little pressure from the other side of the beam on the face of the pin popped it so it would slide out very easily. Different, but not a challenge once you've learned how it works. Hope that answers your question!
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In that case there are plenty of alternative applications, most extremely lightweight and capable of running on the aforementioned relatively cheap device.
Again, not saying this is an optimal solution, but keeping it on the table for organizations that are already heavily leaning towards legos or are already heavily invested into mindstorms/ev3. For those organizations, it is a very viable solution.