Friday, May 25, 2007

Democracy Player is to geeky for TV outreach?

We have tried the existing UI with lots of different people/groups over the last year and it just docent work for non-tec outreach. That is the sought of people who watch TV...

* about a 1/2 uninstall/stop using the app because of stability issues and slowdowns, and the whole whats it doing to my computer worry of P2P.

* the rest just don't get the interface through tec fear... if it was TV the wouldn't be any problem - Joost will be much more of a success because of this...

Will the open source movement lose out through geekness agen... simplify... simplify... simplify is the way to go Democracy Player has not done that anufe for real out reach. I feel it would only take a few UI changes to do this... and the UI could be made optional to not tern off the geeks. TV/TIVO can flick from one to the other, start them on TV - the hay I understand this moment then later they can dive in and find the power of peopul2peopul TV.