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

[Rod]

the geek solution is to get one of them embeded device kits with
reasonable cpu/ram/flash interface and roll your own ;)


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:23 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 12:41 +0800, Craig Foster wrote:
> > ________________________________
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> --
> Craig Ringer
> 
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