I'm spending too much time on this so this is my last post on this topic. To be honest I don't really care if the Touch works or not - I am not going to buy one as my SB 3 does all I need, and some things that I don't need since I moved to an external DAC. I do care about being patronised with soothing noises about if using the touch screen is too hard for me then you don't have to use it and it isn't going to cost any more... and then find it is.
Touch or not is the wrong issue. I teach Web Development and have taught Human Computer Interaction to degree and adult day class level. This does not give any special right to pronounce on these matters or have any greater authority than the next man but it does mean that I have spent some time reading around usability issues, discussing it with my students and observing how different people react to digital technologies. The techies love it because it gives authority and jobs (I am not knocking techies - in many ways I am one). Everyone else sits there thinking why does it have to be this hard? (IP, Subnet mask, WEP, WPA, SSID, gateway, DNS, DHCP, FLAC, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and on it goes). They want iTunes/Window Media Player and something like this: http://brennan.co.uk/ In my humble opinion, Logitech can fiddle around all they want with the front-end (and I believe they already have the best solutions) but if the ripping/tagging/WiFi/distribution back-end stays as it is then the various Squeeze devices will remain a mail-order only (I speak for the UK) niche product. Of course Logitech may have the killer back-end product in development right now but are just unable to talk about it. I hope so. In all my dealings with family, friends, staff and students over the last few year I have not any one else who would buy into the Slim/Logitech music replay technology. I assume they all felt it was more bother than it was worth. Right, I'm off to re-rip my copy of Emilie Autumn's Enchant because yet again I have found something weird going on with the tags. This doesn't happen in iTunes. -- dBerriff iMac/SqueezeCenter, SB3, Boom, AVI ADM9.1 active speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dBerriff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12247 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67399 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
