Balthazar_B;141877 Wrote: > Let's put it this way: if Apple had released the iPod with a web > interface for navigation instead of the simple but brilliant wheel > mechanism, it would have flopped in the marketplace (I suppose one > could say the Newton was the original flop). SanDisk, Creative, et al. > have pretty decent navigation mechanisms as well. A small device (as a > remote should be) whose essential function is navigation really needs > something like this, and IMHO that's one of the strongest points about > the Sonos (despite that the remote could still stand improvement). > Messing with a web interface compared with a device where hardware and > firmware are well-matched will almost always be a poorer user > experience.
I have something like 15 remote controls in a drawer in my living room. All of them look essentially the same as the standard slim remote, a bunch of buttons on a rectangular lump of plastic. The display, if any, is on the device itself - not the controller. Now I'm not trying to argue that this is an ideal situation - I replaced all 15 of those with a Harmony after all - but it doesn't seem to be a major problem in most people's eyes. I don't see Best Buy going out of business because no-one's buying TVs anymore, and the vast majority of people use the stock remotes perfectly happily. Like I said, I have nothing against a fancier remote control being available, but comparing a squeezebox to a portable player is not comparing like with like. I can't read the screen on my ipod from the other side of the room either, but I don't see people complaining about that. For myself (and I realise I don't represent everyone) - it's the web interface which sold me on slim. Without that I wouldn't have bought the 4 squeezeboxes and a transporter which currently sit in my apartment. (oh and if Slim ever do anything as annoying to use as that stupid ipod wheel I'm selling up and switching to Roku!) -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27824 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
