Plex Nine media center released, adds iOS app
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tropic10 Wrote:I may not get an answer to this but I'll ask anyway. Elan, are you planning on eventually rewriting the Mac front end so it doesn't use the XBMC codebase?

Judging from forum posts there, they would like to and are preparing changes to skinning engine for some time. They just need Xbmc code support so that they can save time and evolve faster. And they need easy way to port skins.

I think it's only a matter of time Plex will completely go closed source. APIs will be (openly) available so you can write plugins, of course :-)

If you look at it logically it's the only way they could choose, with XBMC and Boxee around and with possibility for them to use Plex code, in time, they would end short.

That's why devs here are pissed up cause someone took all the hard work without contributing in any way and, on the other side, Plex devs are silently smiling cause they (finally) have something to differentiate them.

Although somebody could call this parasitization, in our modern age that kind of morality gets often exorcized with -well, life's a bitch...-

To get back on topic Rolleyes I do think that moving of content management (with possible streaming capabilities) from front end is a good way to go. It was necessity on xbox, now it could be left only in LIVE distro. UI would rejoice and new possibilities would open. I also like idea of keeping sqlite and solving library sharing with xmls. Maybe this could be accomplished in cooperation with Boxee devs. That would be Plex killer.
My skins:

Amber
Quartz

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