On 08/09/2010 02:46 PM, JJZolx wrote: >> With zero facts to back up your opinion. > > The Radio has had major problems since day one and they continue nearly > a year later.
That has not been my experience. My Radio has worked since very early in the beta process. Granted, I have never been tempted to use it as a clock radio with alarms, so I have skipped a lot of pain that others see. From what tea leaves I can see, the Radio was rushed when the Touch missed the Christmas sales cycle. Not a lot of news that it was not a smooth effort. But I have zero problems with mine. > Touch's development was a freaking nightmare. That's > all. That is your opinion and your words. The Touch as a SlimDevice came together fairly quickly. The UI was rough, but the basics worked from early on. It was the damn TinySBS that has been a schedule killer. Not a lot of news here, embedded systems are a lot harder than normal computer/consumer applications. I will argue that if they left the "server reads from USB disks and thumb drives" off the advertising copy, they could have had a successful product nearly a year earlier. I personally have zero interest in TinySBS. It does not solve any problems that I have. Again, whether or not it is called a "SqueezeOS platform", all modern devices like the Touch have an embedded Linux in them. Its how its done for low volume stuff, which included these days 40 inch TVs, that sell far more units than any SqueezeBox ever will. There are bathroom scales with Bluetooth or WiFi, they have embedded Linux in them. Perhaps they had too many features on the checklist, perhaps the engineers were bad, or the engineering management was bad, that is water over the damn. If there is a follow-on product, its going to be built using a touch screen and an embedded Linux base. The smart phone industry (do I need to mention that the most popular smartphone has a linux embedded system in it) has driven the market to demand touch screens. And the volumes seen in smartphones have driven the prices for touchscreens down to levels that could not have been imagined when the Touch was first created. Pat -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
