Gave me a chuckle first thing this morning. My wife wants nothing to do with the SB. My son on the other hand surprises me. Ultra smart, has had every iPod they've come out with, plays games online, text messages faster than anyone I've ever seen, plays paintball (and those markers are hi-maintenance)and deals with PC's like they were analog telephones. Howwwwwwwever, he isn't the least bit interested in the SB. I beleive he feels the same way I do. It's music. I enjoy the music. There's a million different ways to get music. Cd players, cable TV, radio (whatever that is), you PC or laptop, your phone, iPod or mP3 players and on and on and on. Usually, he is doing two or three things at once and that's where I think he loses interest in the SB. Anything that takes him away from the tasks at hand aggravates him. The iPod or his PC never seem to do that. The SB seems to do that occassionally or more often depending on your luck. I've finally got mine where the piddling to listening ratio is well infavor of the listening, but it still occassionally has to be recycled or messed with for a minute. Last night was an example. I had paused a playlist the day before and when I restarted it it seemed fine except it stopped playing after every song. It only took a minute to restart SC, but that's what it seemed to take. And that's where I would have lost my son. The great thing about iPod and mP3 players are they are very, very portable and highly reliable. You press the button, you hear the music. Oh, and the jog dial is nicer :-) So in my opinion, if you want the masses to love it like the folks on this forum, then it needs to be push and play. If not, then that's fine too, but it should come as no surprise that some folks just won't take to it like others and I would imagine most of those folks are busy with other things like ironing your shorts :-)
Have fun, Howard P.S. All the above is my warped opinion. Don't yell at me, I am a 60's kid. -- Howard Passman Sorry slow to respond. I don't spend that much time online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49688 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
