pippin wrote: > We do NOT have the intelligence in the server. That's the one > fundamental decision we have made, we believe that embedded devices > these days are powerful enough to be able to have the controller in a > controller and to be able to give the player some kind of autonomy. Sure. But that's not the issue. A server-centric architecture advantage lies in end-device lifecycle. I know iPeng still runs on "old" iOS4 devices. That's a laudable rarity, but how old is that exactly ? I was stunned when, by SBS v6.0, the text UI on the almost decade-old ip3k devices was improved (smoother scrolling). I also remember the addition of alarm capability to the SB3 when the Boom was introduced. There is a discrepancy between hi-fi gear evolution and cpu evolution. Prices do not halve or performance double at the same rate in each domain. And this creates planned obsolescence, which leads to balkanization (?) when users stop following the trend.
I am not exactly a Luddite. I am simply stating that I wouldn't see the point in buying new hifi gear at the same rate I buy computing gear; and that a stroke of genius like the SB3 is doesn't come by every year. Nor even shall. Anyways. A powerful, well documented (ahemÂ…) API will probably come to the rescue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467
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