pippin;354239 Wrote: > Why does it have to be officially sanctioned? > Maybe it's enough if it's good?
I don't think it has to be, but there are advantages. In the case of Sonos, having an official application helps to maintain feature equivalence between controller options. There were some 3rd party options, but they were unable to surface all the of the 3rd party music services like Napster and Rhapsody or browse using Album Art like the official application does. Even if they did, on the day of the release of Sonos 2.7 they wouldn't have supported any of the new additions like last.fm and Radiotime with it's podcasts etc. This would have meant that 3rd party application users had to wait for the developer to get up to speed on the new functions and then write/test new code. This can all take time, during which the iPod owner would be missing core functions. As it is, Sonos delivered a new iPhone application on the day of release of 2.7. Going forward there will be concurrent releases and feature equivalence meaning a Sonos owner can invest in an Apple controller with the reassurance that it will always support all the newer features going forward. You just couldn't get that with a 3rd party plug-in that's not even guaranteed to have another release. -- jaffacake Ben - eco conscious techie and author of Jaffa's Green Blog - http://www.jaffacake.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jaffacake's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3206 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54336 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
