interesting discussion. my view hasn't changed from when i first got my SB.
essentially, i love the hardware and the audio quality, and i think the SBC concept, or pippins apps, are great as well. but the software, despite its many strengths and bells and whistles, is just fatally flawed. it is complex, it is not user friendly, it is a resource hog, it isn't fast, it isn't fun, it isn't intuitive, it isn't well documented... i could go on. i look at a product like tivo, and i see a product designed for the masses that can still do very complex things. i only see the second half of that when i look at SC. i still don't understand why there isn't an "all in the one box" solution available for example, or why optionally including video (on some new product) is so taboo, (meaning on screen HUD as well as video streaming). why can't winamp power the hardware via a plugin? why can't itunes treat a SB as if it were an airport express? just giving customers funner software like winamp to power the device would really deliver it to the masses! how about OS drivers that can handle the TCP/IP bit? i'm not saying all or any of these ideas is the right idea, but i am saying that IF the idea is to deliver slim stuff to the masses, something has to give. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - w/sc 7.3.3b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63775 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
