erland wrote: > Quite the opposite actually, hard-linking it to a web site often means > that the company have to provide official support for their product a > long time after they have stopped selling them. If they shutdown the web > site so the products stop working, a lot of people are going to complain > and they are going to get a lot of negative publicity, which is often is > very bad for any future business they plan to do. You can loose your > reputation over a night but it will take years to earn it back. I guess, on this one, there is no right or wrong. You look from the developer/company side of view, I look from the customer side. And Logitech was in the past not really too concerned about loosing reputation, if you look how they treat their SB customer base
erland wrote: > From an economical perspective, Logitech should just shutdown > mysqueezebox.com tomorrow because they doesn't earn any money on it when > they don't sell new Squeezeboes, but they can't do this because it would > be really bad for their other business and it would cause a lot of > warranty returns. This is exactly what they will be doing: Shutting it down asap based on economical assessment, meaning as soon as they do not have to fear waranty claims.... erland wrote: > ... LastFM have a Radio API which looks promising if you like to stream > radio from LastFM: http://www.last.fm/api/radio > ... That is a good starting point, thank you! erland wrote: > If anyone is interested I think they should give it a try, all plugins > developed will be valuable, either on short or long terms. > For someone who doesn't know perl, the easiest way to start is usually > to take an existing plugin which does something similar and start > adapting it to your needs. > If you don't know software development or engineering, it's generally > going to be hard, but it's definitely not impossible if you are > committed. I am a semiconductor engineer - so there is eng. knowledge, but semiconductors are quite a different field of knowledge... let's see where I get..... erland wrote: > I'm happy to answer any development related questions in the Developers > section of the forum from someone who want to try develop a plugin and > I'm sure there are other plugin developers who are prepared to do the > same. If someone who isn't a software developer wants to try, it's > probably a good idea to start reading up on perl and look at some simple > plugin first, for someone who is software developer but doesn't know > perl it's easier, after all that was the case for me when I developed my > first plugin and it took a few weeks I think...... Again, thank you so much for your offer! To start w/ 1 dumb question: Where is the developer section of the forum? I don't see that headline anywhere. Also, can you lead me to some starting information (on creating an easy plugin and some 1st steps for pearl)? I checked the Wiki, but it stated that the plugin information is outdated for the current LMS Versions. Thanks again, Heiner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimhase's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31958 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97690 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
