seems like a big turnaround from this post... Goodsounds;428503 Wrote: > Interesting thoughts, Mr Sinatra. > > In thinking about it, perhaps the SB family is not a mass market thing. > Look at how many people are happy with ipod docking stations with amps > and speakers, whatever those are called. THAT'S a mass market type of > product. > > The audiophiles I know (who have spent big bucks on equipment) would > have nothing to do with digital files coming from a PC. Maybe that's a > function of the ones I know. > > What's left - geeks looking for a toy, and music enthusiasts looking > for convenience and yes, perhaps a toy, but in a different way than the > geeks. The geeks, who are WAY overrepresented in these forums, are not > numerous enough to support a product line. What's left for outreach is > non-technical music fans. > > For them, the products need to be easier to use, better explained, less > troublesome, and less geeky (it's a turnoff). Simple task ahead for the > marketing people to figure out how to do that. > > As for filling the departed shoes, I'm sure the company has plenty of > talent left to handle things. If not, bigger problems are ahead.
...but thats fine. imo, the webui sucks. its slow, it isn't intuitive, and it isn't flexible. but developing a plugin for winamp a waste of time? i hardly think so. same for itunes or other apps... why? b/c there are millions of those users out there already, and they know how to use those apps, and they act the way they expect them to. remember, if such a path existed, someone wouldn't need to figure out how to make the SC scanner work the way they want, they'd already have an app working to their liking. (and they are FAR faster to boot, scanningwise and responsively, and in some cases, some better/other features) -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - w/sc 7.3.3b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63775 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
