m1abrams;427378 Wrote: > Not sure how the twitter example works with people understanding > client/server models. People that use twitter are not running a twitter > server they just are using it. What I have seen is many non-techies > just do not understand the relationship between the Squeezebox and > SqueezeCenter. They do not understand that the Squeezeboxes are just > thin clients. Your wonderful iPeng app works with every Squeezebox made > because of this thin client arch, your app does not talk directly to the > clients it just talks to the server which commands the clients. So > iPeng does not care how to talk to the clients, it only cares about how > to talk to the server. This concept which seems obvious to us, is very > foreign to non-techies.
Yes, but at the same time this concept is the biggest asset of the architecture. Only because of this concept is it so easy to have 3rd party contributions and all the flexibility the system has. My example was that Internet services and the phone service work in a similar way: most of the intelligence is in the server. Agreed: You don't have to operate these and this is exactly what I wanted to make a point about: It's important to make it SIMPLE for people to operate this server, then you will be able to explain the concept to them. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63775 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
