[plug] Re: [OT] Portable Music Player, Voice Recorder

[Craig Ringer]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 12:41 +0800, Craig Foster wrote:
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> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au on behalf of Timothy White
> Sent: Tue 09-Aug-05 12:17 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Re: [OT] Portable Music Player, Voice Recorder
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> Hmmm. From my experience and from reviews and other stuff I've read on
> the net. I think it's time a company started listening to what people
> want. I know they can survive by making a product and selling it, but
> most geeks know what they want and would love a company that focused
> more on what we want, not what they want to make.

Well, you can get players that fit the bill - but they tend to be
bigger, more capable units not tiny flash players.

Supporting Vobris, supporting speex recording, etc all mean more
complexity, more ROM size, and AFAIK in the case of Vorbis more CPU
power. That means more power consumption, leading to reduced battery
life and higher costs.

When 90% of the market haven't even *heard* of Vorbis, I can see why
they don't leap to support it. It's unfortunate, but not entirely
unjustified.

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Craig Ringer