magiccarpetride;639419 Wrote: 
> Successful products are successful precisely because people are not
> expected to read the instructions. Products such as Flip camcorder, or
> iPod etc., gained mass adoption because they offer a no-brainer
> experience. No one I know ever stopped to read the iPod instruction
> manual (I don't know if there even is such a manual?)
> 
> I firmly believe that Touch must strive to accomplish the same, if it
> is to become a widely adopted player.

If absolute the ease of use wins, then sonos probably wins. On the
other hand, the flexibility and openness of the sb platform make some
things a lot better.

For instance, iPeng is far superior, imho, to any means sonos offers
for browsing. And sonos is hampered by stupid issues like not being
able to handle multiple genre tags: ick. Since it isn't an open
platform, nobody can just go fix things like this, and there can't be
anything externally built like iPeng.

For people who can't follow the instructions for programming their dvr,
there is sonos. That group of people is aging and not being replaced
(most younger people are not technophobes).


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totoro

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