Mitch Harding;252814 Wrote: > Even if SD goes away, your Transporter will do what it has always > done, minus Squeezenetwork possibly. You won't get new SS/SC > versions, but presumably their current functionality satisfies you or > you wouldn't have bought one. I guess you'd have to worry about > eventual hardware failure and inability to buy a new one to replace > it, but otherwise it seems like it would be a sound investment whether > or not SD continues to exist.
Squeezenetwork and integration of other services is a fairly significant capability to lose. Also, you never know when that next Windows update will break SC with no one there to fix it if development stopped. In the "appliance" world where you have products with no dependencies on others in order to use the product, I would agree with what you say about current capabilities. However, this product has a dependency that Slimdevices continue to support the current OS market. Otherwise I have to lock into whatever the last working config is and hope it never breaks. The risk might not be huge, but it is there. Part of the value of the product is the ongoing sw development of the server. Of course I evaluated that when I bought - otherwise I would have bought a DLNA focused product...why go proprietary otherwise (I'm aware it's open source of course)? So, if server development died, I would feel like I didn't get everything I wanted from the product. I unfortunately got burned by the audiotron. It was a great product, but it died very early. -- thomsens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thomsens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1352 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41476 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
