amcluesent;355213 Wrote: > I'm beginning to think the SBR/SBC design was a mistake.
If you want IR baster buy an SBc and an SB3. I'm not a developer any more, but it seems to me the mistake was LUA - a language that very few people know or want to know. The whole idea was to bring a product to market that the third party development and enthusiast 'home brew' community could really go to town with. That clearly has not happened. I still think its a great product though. But in terms of what it does for the money it costs, it's not anywhere near as good a value prospect as an iPod touch/iPhone. Audio out on the SBc will really add a lot of value, but IMO they really need to get the IR emitor working - then it will be unbeatable. As for the Sonos remote, i too would want a dedicated remote. Using the iPod is a great move and i would use it if i had a Sonos and iPod/iPhone - but they are hardly innovating, loads of people have do this already (including Apple themselves). What surprised me at first was the fact that a company that already knows plenty of people will pay over the odds for thier products would hand out a completely free app. Not even $5? And what about existing controller sales? But i really dont think Sonos care about sales of the CP100 - What i suspect Sonos is actually doing here is a canny bit of market research, and what better way to do it? they are watching how this (solid and slick, but fairly run-of-the-mill app) goes down and what people want, following the progress of the SBc. My guess is that Sonos are developing a new remote that will really trump SD/Logitech (touch screen, maybe even with audio) which we will see in the not to distant future. -- autopilot *Lounge :* Squeezebox Classic -> Cambridge Audio Azur 640a -> Mission 701's. *Bedroom :* Squeezebox Receiver -> Trends TA10.1 Class-T -> Kef Cresta 1's *Office :* Softsqueeze -> Logitech Active 5.1's. *Kitchen :* Squeezebox Boom -coming soon- *Roaming : * Squeezebox Controller -> Logitech mm28 portable speakers / Shure E2c's *Controllers :* Squeezebox Controller x 2 + Logitech Harmony one *Server :* SC7.3b (Vista 64) + AlienBBC, iPlayer & MusicIP headless. 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/domrevans/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 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
