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Wow.. XBMC needs some votes.
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there are quite a lot of people out there not knowing about XBMC. Since it's word of mouth and not sold in store's and such. I tell people all the time at my work to customer's (IT Tech) and spread the word. And after showing screenshot's, they are in shock. And then tell them it's free, they fall over and die. (not literally) Media Center is awful, i've briefly messed with Boxee, and made my own decision that it still also doesn't compare, although pretty nice. I used to use GBPVR and ported over the PM skin for it a long time ago, but still no where near the same experience. And i didn't even bother looking at the other's in the vote (boo anyway)
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I would put more trust in a lifehacker type of poll with a bigger user pool...Plex seems disproportionaly high considering Macs have only 8-10% market share.
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I agree.. XBMC is very word-of-mouth. It's a shame that the media center apps that it gave life to gain more mainstream popularity than it does. It's clearly underground and my assumption is that Team XBMC likes it that way... for now.
They make a few blog posts and Twitter updates here and there but not much. If you look at the "social fanbase" and compare it to Boxee and Plex, they blow XBMC out of the water. The votes will display each media center's social impact, user awareness, and user community involvement rather than sheer distribution of users.
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I wasn't referencing a particular Lifehacker poll just giving an example. Though I assume Lifehacker has done that type of poll, they do those type of polls all the time
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