What is even cooler is that you do not even need to explorer or even contemplate the "open sourcedness" of the Chumby to enjoy it!!!
It is truly brilliant because you enlist all those people who do enjoy flash and software mods to make cool widgets which provide content for those who simply enjoy the Chumby for what it does on a shallow surface level. And everybody ends up happy.
There are loads of people who could care less about HOW it works. They just WANT it to work.
My wife is one of those. When her computer becomes less than a perfect working partner ...a slave. she can not approach the problem from a "how it works" point of view.
The Chumby and it's web side User interface is so very simple to use. As is the Chumbys UI.
I beleive that Even if you can't program the clock on your VCR that you could set up and activate a chumby.
It is that good.
Please keep up the great work!!!
I also hope the Chumby becomes a HUGE (to a point) hit. World domination is a tough and lofty goal. My biggest fear is that the Chumby company we all know and love would be swollowed up by the likes of Google to become a Google appliance.
IMHO This would be a disaster from an end user point of view. There can be no doubt that Google and others are watching the Chumby very closly.
Yaesumofo
slave2thelight wrote:I think it's a brilliant strategy. If you like it, you become invested in it - after all, you're part of the manufacturing process! You're no longer a customer... you're an evangelist.
And if you don't like it? Well, maybe open source isn't for you. After all, it's unlike any other product out there.
I love this little gadget. If Chumby makes it, Chumby will make it *big.*
A Chumby in hand is worth 20 in the Wherehouse.