JohnnyLightOn Wrote: > ^ This is funny, but I wouldn't underestimate Apple. They tend to make > great consumer electronics that are easy to use, including on the PC. > iTunes is fantastic software, utterly fantastic, on both the Mac and > the PC. If you're their competitor, it's better to overestimate them > than underestimate. > > But they typically make closed systems that work best (or only) with > their own software and formats. Being an open system is one of the > things that distinguishes the SqueezeBox.
I agree that Apple makes good comsumer electronics products. iTunes feels like a modern personal computer application. It displays lots of informtion on tracks and playlists without waiting for a command and the browser window panes are a slick way to narrow a search. iTunes feels like an interface for people who just want to play their music. Slimserver has a passive, highly modal, underdocumented interface. It needs some re-thinking before it is useful to a wider range of customers. And the burden is on the customer to find and install the rest of the solution: software for ripping, tag editing and burning CD-Rs. iTunes isn't a complete success for me yet but neither is Slimserver. I think the Airport Express was a toe in the water product; It doesn't have an interface where the AE box is and the sound quality needs work. Apple isn't serious about home music player hardware yet. SlimDevices had better move the Slimserver/Squeezebox product along before Apple becomes the Gorilla in this market. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19073 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
