Letten;627833 Wrote: > > 1. Consistant User experience across SB devices > - moving from controller, Radio, Touch, Boom, Android, Ios should not > give fundamentally different experience and control. Most users like it > when UI's are consistant. > That's not an argument. You could have easily done that with a native App or even one of the existing ones. This App also only LOOKS like the other UIS, it's not using SqueezePlay code. > > I know some users here don't understand this because they just spent > 150 $ on a SB reciever and use iPeng to control it. But I have spent > > 1.000 $ on different SB devices (Duet, Booms, Radio) so I appreciate to > have consistant experience across all. > Which you don't, right now, because the UI and even menu structure is different between Booms and Radio/Duet > > 2. Control over User Experience > -unless Logitech actually decided to buy the source code, they wouldn't > have full control over user experience. > Already now they have >50% control over the user experience since they define most of the menus structure and behavior, even for iPeng. For the rest, the answer to #1 applies. > > 3. Maintenance > -It's obviously easier to maintain the app's if they don't wonder to > far from the rest. They already have quite a few UI's to worry about > and they already had a Touch-enableded UI (Touch). > This IS an argument against native Apps in general, which are very hard to combine. Agreed. But don't be mislead by the Look of the App, this is NOT SqueezePlay. It may share a bit of code with the WebUI, though, not sure about that.
However, I'll be really interested how Logitech will solve that maintenance issue. In the past, Logitech's strategy has been to match firmware with the server software. You can't do that anymore here. Will be interesting to see what happens when 7.6 comes out: Will you have to update the App to use it then (right now a lot of things don't work with onebrowser)? And will that updated App still work with older server incarnations or will you also have to change your server version? Or will they finally make the API more stable so that it's able to work with more than one version at a time? It'll be an interesting experience. We as 3rd party developers have been lobbying for a more stable API for years (myself for at least three) without being heard, maybe this changes if Logitech run into the same issues. And then there is the one really serious issue with the MySB design I recently learned about and that Logitech obviously has not even noticed at all, I sincerely hope they never really have to cope with it, currently I'm doing a bit of a nasty fix for it although I'm not even sure it applies to iPeng... -- 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
