epoch1970;626987 Wrote: > > As of now, the app thing is going to be a standard way of managing SBs. > And maybe a future generation of SB players will build on that > assumption. > So in time plenty of normal people will be enticed to use an app, and > not only the nerds or smartphone maniacs. > When there is no competition, there is no market. Logi just has > acknowledged there is one, and this must be good. > Not necessarily. It's not just about having "any" App, it's also about integration with the App environment on the target device (long term) and that's something you can neither do with a Web App nor with only a single developer for all your platforms.
The good thing is that it will probably help to make the APIs used a bit more stable since now Logitech is going to have the same problems as us 3rd party developers :) > > Now the question is how to make casual users see they can get more from > a better app ? Maybe "lite" versions or free trials ? > No free trials on iOS. Been trying to get my head around how a "free" version could look like for a looong time. It has to be fully functional (Apple doesn't allow dummy Apps) yet still give you good reasons to purchase. I didn't find anything. > > I just tried the app on my iPad (v1). It is still fast enough (as for > iPhone 4, I say fast, not "fluid"), but the UI is quite boring on the > big screen. Again, I am comparing with iPeng for iPad. The _real_ problem here is that THIS is what every media reviewer will use as a reference. And then they compare with Apple and Sonos and then... I'm still not convinced Logitech are doing themselves a favor here, but then the same is true for understaffing the core dev teams. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87212 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
