ezkcdude;161524 Wrote: > So, you *know* this to be fact? > Yes, I know for a fact that it wouldn't be an easy thing to implement. As you correctly point out, anything is -possible- (and I never said otherwise) but it's a matter of cost/time. Balancing my knowledge of the likely cost involved with the likely utility of such a feature (and my understanding of the SD philosohpy) led me to state that I think it's unlikely to happen any time soon. That's an opinion, but I stand by it.
> > As a previous poster alluded to, if a tiny little iPod nano can do it, > why couldn't the SB do it? > What on earth has physical size got to do with it? The reason the nano can do it is it has a chipset and firmware designed specifically to do that and nothing else. The SB3 chipset and firmware however, is designed specifically to do something quite different. Combining both feature sets in one would take quite some engineering effort. As kdf mentioned, you'll need to add screen drivers, remote control logic, USB logic (and hardware), file system drivers, playback & buffer management, etc. And that's ignoring the increased support costs (device support quirks, additional user confusion, "why doesn't my ipod work" calls, etc). Sure it's not impossible, just hard. > > Haven't we all seen over the last few years (since March 2003, to be > exact) what happens when a few people *know* something to be true? > Huh? You lost me here. > > What you and the others have demonstrated well is the idea of > *truthiness*, and that is not the same thing as *fact*. > This isn't the Daily Show. If you dispute what I (or anyone else) has said please provide some evidence (or at least logical argument) to back up your view, rather than just comparing the size of various products or proclaiming "it must be easy". The people here (and I'm excluding myself from this group) know an awful lot about these products and understand in very great detail how they work. I, personally, find it more valuable to listen and learn than put my hands over my ears and keep talking. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30399 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
