CardinalFang Wrote: > It's still not what the consumer expects for a mass market consumer > electronics product. Ever have to wait for bug fixes for your TV? Or > for the rest of your HiFi? > > Don't get me wrong, I love my SB, but it's a far cry from the > out-of-the box experience I had with my iPod.
Compared to other electronic devices I have (few of which are particularly esoteric): Linksys wireless router: The router was WAY WAY harder to get setup. Orders of magnitude. Yet, tons of people have this thing, if all the "linksys" networks I see around are any key. Motorola cablebox DVR: Easy to set up (the cable company does it), but hard to use and incredibly -- incredibly! -- buggy. It frequently turns the TV off when we're watching it, for instance. Dell DJ MP3 player: Much harder to set up (mostly because it didn't come with the modern MTP/PFS firmware installed by default), and harder to get working reliably with DRMed music. Roku M500 with UPNP/WMC: Harder to setup, much harder to use, and less reliable (it crashed several times, and would refuse to play songs on the first try several other times). Digital Rebel: Harder to use properly (though the photography skill set is a different one from the computer skill set), but definitely more reliable in operation. iPod: Okay, I'm just bitter here, but I never could get the damn thing to connect to my computer. It just wouldn't do it. Insane. (I know I'm an exception on this one.) At any rate, I don't think the SB2 is way out of the norm for modern tech-gear, in terms of ease-of-use. I wouldn't give one to my mom, but anyone who can set up a wireless network in the first place can definitely get an SB2 working no problem. -- mkozlows _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
