If I understand the timeline, they co-existed in time. The minimalist approach of the SLiMP3 was probably because that was all they could do in a garage design (and it's quite impressive that they did what they did).
Why the design continued that way when the SB1 hardware did have the ability to handle limited key input and so forth is a bigger question. The idea of a slim client is a good one ... let the stuff that is dropping in price daily (compute power, memory, disk) be left out of the design and supplied over the network. Unfortunately, such a design implies that there are other people who will build the rest of it. There are, but they're all geeks. No one has made a commercial success of (and few enough have even tried) making a Slim Server box. The Audiotron, for all that it wasn't as audiophile, was a more complete solution and for that reason, appealing. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21736 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
