MrSinatra;636535 Wrote:
> i'd say its uninteresting (to the mass market) b/c it doesn't yet
> support airplay (or the "audio part" of it) and b/c the UI is not one
> UI for all. if it ever does, it becomes nteresting, and then the Q is
> the degree to which it does.
>
I'd argue that the reason the mass market doesn't buy it is because:
1. They don't know it exists
2. They think it's too expensive
3. The applications it bundles is still too geeky for the mass market
AirPlay support would certainly help but to get AirPlay you can just
get a $99 AppleTV and you have what you like, as I've understood you
don't even have to have it connected to iTunes if you only want to use
AirPlay. AppleTV is cheap even if you only use it as a wireless iPad ->
TV and iPad -> Amplifier connector.
MrSinatra;636535 Wrote:
>
> i could be mistaken, but my impression is to do all those things it
> does currently, VB basically runs separate apps to do them.
>
It has a common home page from which you can launch the different
apps.
MrSinatra;636535 Wrote:
>
> i think a single open source unified UI, that can run slim, apple, or
> dlna, (and tivo or whatever else etc), equally well is something of a
> holy grail.
>
My experience is that community based open source projects with a few
exceptions rarely result in unified simple UI's.
MrSinatra;636535 Wrote:
>
> although, my belief is that really a developer would just need to
> replace itunes with their server and support airplay/dlna with such an
> open source project to be successful. one imagines such a project
> could do what itunes does, "better." adding in slim support would be
> nice, but not needed (to be successful).
>
And how would this developer be economically successful ?
By also producing and selling hardware ?
Honestly, I don't think you will get what you want through the open
source community, it's too scattered and geeky to accomplish something
unified that's also simple to use and ready for mass market usage.
VortexBox is how close it's going to get, it already today solves the
complicated ripping, tagging and installation stuff, but I suspect it
will never get much further than that. It will focus more on supporting
new communication protocols than building a unified UI. However, I think
AirPlay (audio) might be a possibility, because that's just about
supporting an additional communication protocol. I doubt it will ever
support licensed AirPlay through Apple, if supported it will probably
used the hacked solution through ShairPort.
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