your momo;158024 Wrote: > Now moving back on Transporter, please react to insure it will not > follow the same path, the future is not yet written...
I don't follow your logic here: you want Slim Devices to react to avoid extinction...by changing the design of a successful product (Transporter/SB) to that of a financially (if not technically) failed product (Audiotron)? Regardless, I understand what you're asking for. It's not beyond my comprehension to understand why some would find it appealing but it wouldn't appeal to me. And the few devices that have followed that model have gone the way of the dodo (Audiotron, Omnifi DMS1). It's hard to say whether or not their failures were due to issues unique to their implementation, price point, marketing, or what, but whatever the case, it's obviously not trivial to make this work. What you're looking for really does sound a lot like the Olive music server. A fine product, I'm sure, but more money than I want to spend and not as flexible. To me, that's why the SB is perfect: it's cheap, and almost infinitely flexible. There might be a market out there for what you want, but you're mostly talking to a self-selected group who appreciates Slim Devices' streaming device architecture. The prospect of a "dumb" mode doesn't excite me. I've said it before: A user isn't going to use a device in 3 different ways (slimserver, squeezenetwork, and some "dumb" network-HD mode). They're only going to use it in one way. Squeezenetwork was added without much change to the design of the SB, but a network-HD mode would require significant change. Perhaps some of the resistance you're meeting from many in this community stems from the fact that the vast majority of us are excited by the flexible server architecture of the SB and want to continue to see more functionality and robustness added to that model rather than losing development time to adding a network-hd ability that we'll never use. It's somewhat akin to walking into a group of hikers and extolling to them the virtues of driving. Yes, driving's nice. Driving's great. it's useful. But we're hikers. Drivers and hikers can get along. They can buy products from the same companies. But they're not necessarily going to see the world the same way or agree on priorities. -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30080 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
