@Professsor,
I finally figured out what the issue is: I think you guys are looking at the world through your eyes...not through the eyes of the generation that is growing up with today's gadgets and technology...
Because I seriously doubt that you can convince a teenager to give up a piece of technology that allows him/her to carry his media collection wherever he is, for another one that does not; simply because the latter plays his media much better...
The argument that @
ned made earlier, illustrating the incompatibility (at a source code level) of MB3 and XBMC/Kodi is right in all front. If this is the argument you guys are making then I stand corrected.
If the argument is that there is no developer willing to code a transcoder/server for XBMC/Kodi, then again I stand corrected.
If the Argument is that the XBMC/Kodi development community is not interested, for whatever reason, to include a transcoder/server into XBMC, then, my all means I stand corrected.
But the only argument that you cannot make is that XBMC as a media player ONLY, satisfies the demands of current and new users for media consumption...or that XBMC, atop an HTPC has any kind of long term viability, because it does not. On noth count...or even that users will go for the dedicated solution over the alternative that does more good enough to pass the mustard.
Yes, there will always be people who still prefer their TVs with Vacumn tubes; but they are a percentage of a percentage of a percentage. I seriously doubt any company or group will stake their future in serving that segment...