pippin wrote: > Hm, but the Smart Radio does exactly what you propose. You do NOT have > to register it to play radio. Plus it gets a lot easier because you > don't have to enter any registration data on the device itself. The > "out-of-the-box" experience with the Smart Radio is not bad. What's bad > is what follows then. >
Ah, I see. Then I concede that they got this part correct. I think I let the "will-not-play-anything-without-working-internet-connection" thing, and the "doesn't-work-with-squeezebox-for-no-technical-reason-other-than-we-want-to-kill-squeezebox" thing, and the "we-haven't-really-engineered-anything-but-just-rebranded-and-emasculated-sbradio" thing has made me dismiss every other aspect of that product. pippin wrote: > > That said, I don't fully agree. I frequently have issues with Apps for > services that require initial registration and then later ask you to > sign in for the account you have created because it inevitably means > that at some unpleasant time (when you actually want to use the thing > instead of playing around with it at setup) you have to dig up your user > credentials to to the actual registration. > I have even thought about re-considering my move to not require > MySqueezebox.com registration in iPeng due to this. I see your point here, but the reasons for not requiring sign-in on setup well outweigh that potential annoyance. Consider the use case of someone who doesn't have any need for anything but free internet radio and local music. Registration/sign-in is literally just a waste of time for this user. Or the use case of someone who _right now_ doesn't have any need for services, but may decide to opt in later. Or the use case of the poster on this thread, who doesn't have a network connection during setup because they are behind a restrictive firewall (or on a boat, which comes up in these forums remarkably frequently). Or the "privacy minded" user (I don't think this is that legitimate, but those people are out there). The middle ground would be to make registration/sign-in explicitly optional during setup. I would have preferred it to have been completely gone, but that would have been a reasonable compromise. Water under the bridge though...squeezebox is dead. long live squeezebox. cheers, #!/ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
