Richie Wrote: > I think you underestimate peoples ability. Slimserver doesn't require > any more skill than any other piece of software I've installed. In > fact it's easier to use in my opinion. My first SB1 was up and running > within ten minutes of taking it out of the box. No fiddling or > tweaking necessary. I can't see it getting much easier.Richard
But that's my point, we aren't average consumers, we're technically able - we're on a forum for the product after all. If I had given an SB to my wife or any of my non-technical friends, they would have insisted that someone install it (like my mum did with here Freeview box) or taken it back to the store and bought something else that just plugged in. They don't like installing software or anything that makes them make decisions! OK, I'll come clean - I'm the CTO of a software company that builds consumer products - games for mobile phones. They have to be dead simple to use and installation has to be almost unnoticeable apart from agreeing to install it. *Any* complication and the user doesn't install the game. We also build software for the handsets themselves. Any bugs and you're looking at a huge product recall, it just mustn't happen. Our audience is the the main stream audience. Computer geeks and hard core gamers will tinker to get things working, not my mum or my wife or the average buyer. My only point was that unless it is completely idiot proof and transparently easy to use and set up (i.e fully automatic, no asking for IP addresses, network names - anything), it's not for the majority of people, only technically savvy ones. That's all, no comment on the product apart from that. Paul -- CardinalFang _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
