I never give only two cents... Here's the perfect example. Apple.
Eye Candy, ease of use, and simplicity. Sonos has done well on these fronts as well. I'm not saying both Apple and Sonos are not without their faults of course (I previous mentioned some of Sonos'). The Slim products are great. But you have to be a gear head and pretty serious music aficionado to install and maintain them. Use of a Squeezebox has a low enough learning curve that you can teach most people the basics in a few minutes from the remote. I am the things I just mentioned, so it works for me. But I'm also inherently a designer and artist (and engineer), so I also have a huge appreciation for the finer points and refinements of products well executed from top to bottom (or bottom to top if you work that way around). I would never advocate eye candy *instead* of usability. To me form and function go hand in had. In my books, You really can't have one without the other in product design. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36259 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
