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The previous Boxee Box could have the TV tuner, but only via USB. The next generation of the Boxee Box could have had a tv tuner built in.

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Instead, the Boxee Box should have had compelling features that simply could not have been available on the software platform.įor example, the software version might have been restricted to viewing Netflix in a browser, while the hardware version could have had an official, native Netflix app, which would have been totally possible, given the Intel chip being used. The step from the Boxee software to the Boxee hardware should not have been the only step. The iPhone 4 will still be supported by this most recent version, but so many new, amazing features will only be supported on the newer hardware iterations that most users will sadly accept that it’s time to upgrade.īoxee’s mistake was failing to follow through on basic product iteration. Then they release the next version, and still more components are missing.

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Then they release the next iteration, the iPhone 4S, with a software update that mostly applies to the 4, but is missing some critical components for the absolute best experience.

Fully stop supporting the product when it becomes clear that the majority of users have moved on.Īpple is another company that does an excellent job following and even helping along this basic process with its line of iOS products.įirst, they release a product with all the latest features, like the iPhone 4.

But it wouldn’t have hurt to at least try to follow the basic tenants of support that Microsoft displayed. To be perfectly honest, a 13 year cycle of support would have been complete overkill for a service like Boxee, as that level of support is really more intended for the business segments of commerce.

That’s a 13 year cycle of support for a product they only sold for roughly 6 years.That is the very definition of long term support. But support for XP continues to this day, with an anticipated ending date sometime in 2014.

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It was succeeded by Windows Vista in 2007. Without a doubt, the biggest mistake Boxee ever made was failing to maintain support for old products.įor all that we may love to hate Microsoft, support for old products is one of the smartest, most important things they’ve ever done. For the sake of the future and XBMC, let’s look into a few of the mistakes of Boxee, so that we - and other XBMC businesses - can hopefully avoid them in the future. But as time went on, it started doing more and more things wrong. It pushed XBMC semi-mainstream.īoxee did many things right. Boxee spoke before congress in favor of unencrypted signals and consumers everywhere. The company led the good fight against content providers on behalf of consumers. And now, finally, Boxee has found itself bought out by Samsung.įor a long time, many of us at XBMC were big fans of Boxee.

Finally, it spun out an entirely new closed source box that had no basis in XBMC at all - and had such a miserable showing that they reportedly couldn’t get another round of venture funding. The company followed this up by spinning out another fork designed specifically to run on a specialized box called the Boxee Box, and then they dropped support for the Boxee Box. The short story is, Boxee started out as the little media center company that could, spun out a fork of XBMC that was well ahead of its time, and then dropped support for that software.