Exactly. Recently we did the same with the house, using AppleTV iTunes and a couple of airport expresses. The thing I like about the setup was the lack of effort. All I needed to do was hook them up, add them to the network and then they just worked. I'm not a fan of spending hours tinkering with the system to get it to work the way I want it to.
That's generally the philosophy used by Apple, don't let the system get in the way of what you want to do. On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Agreed. I have found that iOS devices tend to be better for less technical >> users. > > > This is true. I also enjoy that I spend less time configuring my Apple > devices, even though I am a fairly technical user. > > I've bought into other devices such as the Apple TV and for me, the biggest > value comes from watching these things all play nice together. Things I buy > on iTunes are available anywhere, and sharing my screen from a laptop, > iPhone, or iPad is super simple without any additional configuration or > software. We have Airplay zones in the house for the living room, bathroom, > and bedroom. > > But it's not just my home. Our office has about 8 speaker zones that are > all available via Airplay, as well as the break area and conference room > TVs. During a meeting we don't fiddle with cables or wires at all anymore, > we just throw the screen up on the big TV, wirelessly. Clients or > contractors working for us can do this too, without any adapters or custom > configs required. > > I am aware that this can all also be accomplished with a PC and / or > Android devices. I actually have one Google TV at home and two in the > office, as well as PCs in both locations (plus various Roku, etc). I've > used them all and do have a good measure of how they are to work with. My > home PC is a great Plex media server, but I've spent a bit of time > configuring and fiddling with it to make it work correctly. This annoyingly > complicated process compared to the ease of doing a similar task with an > Apple product is glaringly obvious. > > It's true that Apple devices are simpler for the the non-techies, but I > enjoy NOT spending time fiddling endlessly with my devices, trying to coax > them into doing something that I want them to do. I have a "no servers" > policy at the office for this reason. Everything to run my business is a > SaaS or some sort, because I don't want to deal with fiddling with shit > constantly to make it work right. I use to enjoy this. I don't enjoy it > anymore. > > I don't mind convention over configuration. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359333 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
