When companies like Apple and Google go after a market place they normally get it. With Apple they forgot how they were successful with ipod. They need to have a flexible embedded program that not only play their proprietary formats but played all open formats. With XBMC simply adding that to Apple and to the Xbox made it a real great device. Now Google is coming in with an Android based solution, sure it will be robust and they have Youtube and Google Videos for content but will it play all open formats? Probably. So what the issue? XBMC is great and I love it. It does two things very well; it’s a media player that can be control with a remote. That’s it. Sure it has plug-ins, and scripts and programs, but they are more for the hobbyist rather than mainstream.
Looking at Google TV as soon as it comes out you know the team at XBMC will be trying to port to that new device; that is what they do best. But wait would it be advantageous to also start to provide code to existing websites to link XBMC with streaming media rather than to build out a who series of different plug-ins and scripts etc.? Maybe if XBMC worked on providing a common plug in for media streaming websites maybe XBMC would be a competitor to Apple and Google.
I guess it not to be in competition with commercial players but to provide a real alternative?
Lazy Don
Looking at Google TV as soon as it comes out you know the team at XBMC will be trying to port to that new device; that is what they do best. But wait would it be advantageous to also start to provide code to existing websites to link XBMC with streaming media rather than to build out a who series of different plug-ins and scripts etc.? Maybe if XBMC worked on providing a common plug in for media streaming websites maybe XBMC would be a competitor to Apple and Google.
I guess it not to be in competition with commercial players but to provide a real alternative?
Lazy Don
