JimC;287198 Wrote: > Let me ask you this: did you test the Duet--a commercially available > version--prior to posting your cnet review? Now let me answer it for > you: you did not. You purport to be fair, but you did not disclose > that fact in your review. Did you expect that the community would > welcome you with open arms? They feel like a product that they've > built was unjustly portrayed; I agree with them. Your "review" was, > simply put, an attempt to sow FUD. > > Again, you are entitled to your opinion. Others are within their > rights to question it. If there is a personal attack--and, no, we > don't consider Robin's response to you to have crossed that line--we > will deal with it as per our forum guidelines. > > You may act as aggrieved as you wish. Petulance is hardly an endearing > trait, however, and will likely make your time and efforts here far less > productive. If you really want to be perceived as fair, amend your > review on c|net and disclose both your prior association with Sonos as > a forum admin, as well as the fact that you did not actually use a > Squeezebox Duet prior to posting (using a borrowed beta version doesn't > count). I think that would go a long way in creating a positive > reputation here on our forums. > > Personally, I'm not interested in the whole Duet vs. Sonos debate. We > build different products for different kinds of users. Sonos went > about solving the problem of getting music from PC to stereo by > building a private, completely controlled island; this gives them an > advantage in ease of installation and multi-room sync of specific > sources of music (but not all sources). We built a "freeport" where we > can *integrate* fully into a home network environment and we opened our > source code to the public so they can extend functionality, add > features, and build the solution they are most interested in; our > advantage then is openess, lower total ownership costs, and > flexibility. Which one is most suitable for any given person is a > question best answered by that individual. > > > -=> Jim
Complete Disclosure is definitely neccessary to report, even (especially) in editorials. You cause your own reputation harm by not being completely transparent. And (a tad off topic) I agree with Jim on this last thing he said about openness... The number one reason I chose Slim over Sonos (And I was about 90% convinced I would eventually buy a sonos) was not price- (although that helped), it was the promise with the openess of the platform. These guys made a rediculously smart decision- because this guaruntees that this product will maintain momentum. I'm just too sick of going the closed route to have the manufacturer lose interest and cut a product short. I have a $250 Sansa Connect that will be losing it's wireless features next month, because Yahoo Music Unlimited is closing. If it were open, somebody with a little knowledge could fix it to at least stream with a UPNP server or Shoutcast. But since it's not open, it was a pointless investment and thanks to Slim- I vow never to go this pointless and dangerous route again. -- FredFredrickson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FredFredrickson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16584 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45734 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
