Howard Passman;379675 Wrote: > You'll have to learn IOS or use the world's worst GUI, then you'll have > to beg for a service contract. Of course support will be decent, but > if you think Squeezebox Wiki is bad, wait until you see CISCO's help > pages. Or you could pay to take classes and get (insert name of their > music prduct here) certified. And of course it will only work with > their routers :-) > > All joking aside, CISCO doesn't get "it". "It" being whatever product > they're fiddling with. They don't even try to understand consumers. > They lead and if you want it, you follow. I don't see any improvements > or changes in Linksys since they purchased it and that's probably good. > > I can wait. > > Howard
Keep in mind that Cisco doesn't try to understand consumers because it hasn't ever sold to consumers until the purchase of Linksys. The devices running IOS are enterprise geared. They've slowly moved into the SMB (small medium business) space, but Cisco's view of SMB is typically much larger than the layperson would think. That old router mentioned in a previous post was intended to be configured, installed and managed by a service provider. Not the end user. Who cares how complicated it may seem if you never have to see how complicated it is? As for something only working with Cisco routers you need to realize that Cisco supports more open standards than anyone else in their respective product lines. Now, onto this new entry. I have no idea what it will be or if it will be any good. But, I do know that Cisco has the resources to bury Logitech and Sonos both. Simply because they have the cash on hand to purchase both companies. Ideally, we will see a lot of great competition leading to better products all around. So as you can all tell I am a very biased Cisco fan. Mostly because I make my living selling it (full disclosure). Rather than rip on them or anyone else, I'll sit back and watch what happens. And listen to my audio streaming through my squeezebox across a rock solid Cisco powered network. -- rainjacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rainjacks's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21999 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57371 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
