Replacement of current web interface ?

[dean]

On May 2, 2007, at 4:06 PM, peterw wrote:
> Thanks, Dean, that's very helpful.
No prob.

> I'm a little concerned about players getting too smart/fat (if you're
> looking at running Jive on the Squeezebox itself and possibly having
> Jive alter the current IR/server/control model). IR Blaster, AMP
> Switch, VolumeLock, StatusFirst -- a fatter/smarter client could lead
> to some "distributed control" problems for developing.
Definitely a risk, having two CPUs running two bits of code, but
there's some power here too, to do stuff on the client that folks
have wanted to do, but couldn't with Squeezebox.

[amcluesent]

I guess feature matching is being demanded by the Logitech 'suits' so that the box looks good on the shelves with planned obsolescence to keep the $$ coming in from upgrades. What a sell out for the genuine music lovers.

[mvalera]

The only suits at Logitech are worn by people coming in for interviews and vendors... and they look out of place when they do it too.

To quote Sean... "However, Jive was designed from the ground up for this license strategy - long before the Logitech merger, in fact."

[mherger]

> The only suits at Logitech are worn by people coming in for interviews

But not all of them do ;-)

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[mvalera]

Ya...

Interviewee in suit and/or tie = tool = not getting hired.

[peterw]

Interviewee in suit and/or tie = tool = not getting hired.

Ouch. That must be a west coast thing. Out here in the DC area, it's still customary to suit up for job interviews, even for tech positions. I'm afraid the famously laid back California dot-com office environment improved our everyday dress codes but not our expectations for interview attire. Maybe it's all the lobbyists who still have to dress like 1950s businessmen...

[gorman]

What a sell out for the genuine music lovers.

I was just reading, as this is clearly labeled as a Developer Forum but... this... talk about crying wolf prematurely! What do you know about this "sell out"? They just announced a software platform for future developments.

A lot of people was demanding for more advanced remotes. Browsing huge collections just on the VFD is not the handiest of tasks, you know?

[dean]

There is no "planned obsolescence," we do plan on continuing support
for our older products.

But we're also developing new ones too and the goal is that they all
work together for the foreseeable future.

[gorman]

There is no "planned obsolescence," we do plan on continuing support
for our older products.

But we're also developing new ones too and the goal is that they all
work together for the foreseeable future.

And anybody still using the original Squeezebox or the even earlier SLIMP3 could testify that this is the plain unadulterated truth.
Hats off to your support.
(Now... if 6.5 hadn't being full of problems I would have liked it better, though ).