soccerdad wrote:Some have been saying Ceton is the only company supporting WMC. Actually Hauppauge and Silicon Dust do a really good job of supplying hardware that works. No, they don't have extenders, but at this time, with the price point of the Echo, neither does Ceton....
With the size and power consumption of the XBox, one could say that neither does Microsoft have an extender.
I hate it for Ceton, but I just don't get why they even put it out there that they were developing Android.
Because they had no idea (a) it would fail, and (b) that if it failed they would be spanked so hard for trying. Somehow, they thought that the community--being fairly small and tight--would understand.
They were wrong, of course, because the "community" is apparently nothing but rabid wolves with the temperament of a spoiled five year old.
They tried, and decided to share what they were trying. Let no good deed go unpunished.
And I repeat: let those of you whining about this tell us all about the things like this that you've tried to accomplish, regardless of the outcome.
The only plausible explanation is that they were trying to keep the hook in people and not get a bunch of them back.
That's the "only plausible explanation"? Really?
My Echo works for the basic stuff. It is not a brick, but it is a bad taste in my mouth.
Had they said nothing at all about Android, you would have been perfectly happy with your non-brick, functioning Echo. The only reason you have a "bad taste" in your mouth is because you decided--YOU decided, on your own--to get all worked up like a kid at Thanksgiving, waiting for Christmas to get here, instead of acting like a rational adult that knows that nothing about this Android thing was ever real despite Ceton saying "look what we're working on". And it was never going to be real until you hold it in your hand.
Is this the first time you've been disappointed? Are you somehow entitled to whatever someone says *might* happen down the road?
Would you have felt any differently had the company had some horrible situation happen--say, everyone died in a horrible plane crash? Would you be here similarly, demanding that whatever is left of Ceton deliver the Android functionality, because by God you got all worked up about it like a kid at Christmas?
I am glad that Hauppauge and Silicon Dust are still players. I am not sure how long Ceton will be. And why is it again that we have special Ceton boards on TGB?
Ah, how the villagers have turned--from community-oriented well-wishers to torch-bearing demanders of gratification or else.
Why is it again we bother to have a community at all? Just shut down TGB.