OK, I think I've just about digested all this uproar. I guess my take is this.....
Dumbing down the complexity in order to achieve a simpler user-experience, more reliable functionality (eg alarm that works without fail) and appeal to the wider mass market - I can appreciate that logic. But doing so by giving your loyal user-community no transition path (we have to replace our entire eco-system to UE in one go - radio excepted) seems borderline suicidal. Which even assumes that the UE brand achieves enough momentum to justify further products. We have to assume a touch equivalent, surely. If the system was being re-architected from the ground up, then it would be easier to understand the choice to sever links with the past. Brave if risky. But given that the new server is clearly based on the existing LMS, choosing to break backwards-compatability (to legacy hardware) seems very questionable - at best. There has always been a trade-off between the open-ness of the system and its ability to appeal to a less technical market. Given the nature of Logitech, that trade off was only ever going to move in one direction. More closed. What is surprising is the brutality of the change - given the success of the radio & touch. Like most others, I'll stick with what works for now and see what the future holds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ squishy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35390 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
