I agree the philosophy change is a big deal. Personally not convinced for the better:
Thin clients effectively have all their user experience server controlled. Now we are into plugins that have to reside as applets in the new devices. Third party developers need LUA and Perl skills if old SB3 etc not to be ignored. When the Controller came out, there seemed an expectation that many apps would follow. Didn't happen. The architecture now has 'half a computer' in the client. This is a mixed blessing, requires Tiny SC, and a Web architecture for control. This could be the start of a Lock-in to MySB for customers. Not really the original open source philosophy. The need to make MySB / SBS seamless otherwise customers will suffer. Currently this seems to be in its infancy. The external Web control for devices like Harmony Remotes is OK - no interactive changes, but SBS and mySB lots of scope for differences and consequent bugs. The effort required in these fundamental changes provides a different experience / method, but could have advanced the core music / audio handling capability instead. As I have previously stated, I believe I, and many forum members, are not the target market, for Logitech's view for the future of Slim Devices. So maybe take my comments as interesting but irrelevant. David -- DaveWr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DaveWr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
