alfista wrote: > The concept is a bit different though. Ye olde SB was initially designed > to have a local server (I believe the first devices only ever worked > that way), later MySB was added to the mix and provided some backend > support for various services and it also acted as a limited features > fallback solution when you didn't have a local server. The concept > provided ample amounts of pitfalls to stump the casual (uninterested) > user and to cause support headaches for Logitech. With the UE device > always connected to the server in the cloud they've dumbed things down a > bit. I see the opposite: you make a server dependent on remote cloud and you are asking for trouble. I've seen downtime on the MySqueezebox thing here and am not impressed. There is absolutely no reason why an internet radio appliance should need to be tethered to one single central server - that's counter to the whole concept of the web.
Logitech has no clue. What they need to do is focus on making outstanding hardware, provide a nice interface and the platform for people to create and - then get out of the way. Instead they are busy trying to build some sort of 3rd rate walled garden. Doomed to fail. Not that I'm surprised. I have more than one Logitech multimedia keyboard lying in my basement, basically because they cant quite seem to design a product with no egregious mistakes. Stopped buying from them now. Its not just the future of Squeezebox community one should be questioning - I cant see how Logitech itself will survive for very long. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Osamede's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11753 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
