teaguecl, I have to kindly ask you... what the hell are you talking about?!?
The
Boxee Box being outdated... it was released last year my friend! I would hardly call that outdated. The performance is lacking, but that doesn't make it "outdated".
Yes... there is a python sandbox on it preventing you from modding it, but that never stopped real hackers before.
Time is on our side my friend and it's only a matter of that before it happens... period.
Netflix is a whole different ballgame. They introduce their own problems by simply existing... not to mention the authentication troubles their app brings.
teaguecl Wrote:But BoxeeBox is cheap, right? Nope. It's subsidized, which is why it's cheap. If people buy the subsidized hardware and not the services - then the hardware will disappear after one generation.
Uhhhh no! Where the hell did you hear this from?? Nobody is "subsidizing" the cost of the hardware whatsoever... not the customers, not D-Link, not
Boxee, not Netflix... so if you have hard proof of this from a formal business announcement, please share it with us. This would be news to the world if this were the case. Cost is controlled by supply and demand and seeing as how
Boxee has had alot of troubles in it's first year, price went down... plain and simple.