erland;495917 Wrote: > I still like the product to survive, it's still a great product line > with huge potential with or without third party plugins. However, unless > something happens I'm a bit scared the competition will catch up and > take over the market. IMHO, Logitech really needs to take the next step > and start implementing features that will enhance your music listening > experience not just make it possible to listen to music.
I'm not sure they will, at least if Logitech figures out that 3rd party development is a huge factor of SB, even if some users don't know it, the 3rd party stuff is a sort of skunk works for the core package. Heck, I think Random playing was originally a 3rd party plugin (by KDF if I recall right). Something that we now take as completely basic. Last.fm was (and still is if you choose that route) a 3rd party application. PublicRadioFan has been mostly superceded by RadioTime, but it was first. Sirius as well. 3rd party creates a nice breeding and testing ground for new ideas, and those that are easy enough to steal can end up being absorbed. (Hah, your plugins are trickier to steal... you've upped the ante on complexity a bit). The whole point of Free Software isn't that it's 'free' as in cost, it's the wild ass tangents that it can go on absent corporate restraints. Certainly some restraints are needed, especially as things get more complex, but encouraging the experimentation is where the innovation is, and re-absorbing that experimentation into releases makes the product better. This is something that historically SlimDevices relied on. > > I haven't touched any of my third party applets or plugins since I > posted the other thread and don't plan to do it unless something changes > that makes the inspiration come back. I think I only said that I will > take a break from third party development, I didn't say I'd take a break > from the community. And I hope you don't, your input is valued. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
