There’s a Voice in my ear whispering, Richard, you have already wrote your perspective on roon’s decision re specifications for hardware for the remote app. And while you’re at it, stay out of it. Let the roon Labs team deal with their customers. After all, this isn’t a life or death issue, need for an organ transplant, a rare blood match. And those disposed to express their perspective on the matter deserve equal time and the freedom to represent their POVs.
Thank you, Voice! If I may, I love roon too. I won’t argue with members defending a position they believe is justified and are given the length and breath to express their genuine upset. And then I reached the part that of that justification that defends a POV that regards the following: “…even if the experience isn’t as perfect as they’d like…” Please note I have not included the entire text of the post (above) which I feel should have been accomplished but the proximity in time makes that post above accessible without the need to search for it.
It’s that sentence that I must contest vehemently though I am not sympathetic to the times in my past when I bought the latest and greatest and then in less time than it took to replace a used cartridge a new latest and greatest with a new cartrige arrived, blah, blah, blah. You get the picture.
I have been computing as an enthusiast since 1986. We’ve all come a long way, n’est-ce pas. I can think of (too) many devices, applications that marketed their products as backwards compatible. Emphasis on the backwards. Let me pause a moment. I am not dismissing what has been previously expressed as invalid. It’s a POV. A model of the world. And I have come to appreciate a different model of the world that just happens to validate the decisions of roon Labs in the synergy they have created as which I believe will prosper with emphasis on prosper for them and for those lifetime licensees who rely on what was originally presented as the model for roon now and, Lord knows, what the Future will bring.
Since 1986 I have witnessed the backwards compatible hardware/software struggle to innovate. I reached the conclusion that backward compatible or a device for all reasons is a decision that favors incompatiblity with the pursuit of excellence. Thank you, Voice. That about sums it up. The pursuit of excellence can be made or hobbled or complicated or conflicted with creating a “thing” that works for everyone until it doesn’t given the rapid developments of technology. You know, the more things change the more they remain the same ideology. It’s true. Except the same is the new different that we’ve always wanted but because it had to work with what came before, the what comes next is tampered with.
I do not have to make members wrong for wanting to conserve their resources in finances, present device models and feel that roon Labs should either conform to what other companies struggle with and then we have to struggle with it, or in the alternative divide and conquer and make different versions for the maddening crowd. Divide and conquer? The equation I see for that is divide and stumble along.
It’s the roon Labs innovators that has made roon as perfect, a relative term, as it presently is. It’s splendid. Perhaps, in time, it will be more splendid. We all can have our say and present our perspectives without stepping on or dismissing other members POV. This is mine, and I had to present one last time. I promise not to go there again. My Voice told me so.
Thank you danny, brian, mike, et al for starting out with a marvelous product that starts further along the contiuum of technology and into the Future. I support your pursuit of excellence.
Best,
Richard
