i think my one response here basically will address everyone who commented since me, and that is to say that IF slim wants to reach a more mass audience, i think they need to look at other paradigms.
its somewhat obvious and goes without saying that the reason some or most of the things i suggested don't exist are b/c no one has written them. the point i was trying to make is that maybe slim should try one. afterall if the point is an "easy" product, then people capable of writing such code would not be a the target consumer, so they'd have no incentive to, (they'd be happy with SC), thus it falls on logitech/slim to do it, if they want to reach the masses. consider that "the masses" want simple and familiar. well, itunes is that, and winamp is basically that, just not as much so. (i think u can do a plugin for WMP, but i don't know how capable it is) consider that "the masses" don't want or need almost ALL of what SC can do, nor do they want to learn it, nor do they want to adjust their tags, data, etc, to get it to work right, nor do they want to wait an hour for a scan to finish, or figure out which scan they need to use. your average user just wants to power the hardware with something fun and easy to use, that they are familar with. so a two pronged approach then, SC for the tech geeks, of which i am one, and SOMETHING, like a plugin for winamp, to make slim hardware available to the masses. i think it then falls to logitech to provide some kind of solution along these lines, and see if it does help to reach the masses. personally, i know many people who are audiophiles but computers passed them by. give them a simple way to power a SB, and they buy. give them SC, and they pass. -- 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
