Once upon a time, there was this guy, Vanyel was the name, who wished to find an easy way to look/listen to his media files on his TV. The solution he wanted to find was not to be too expensive, not too geeky and was to be easy to integrate in a living room.
So, little Vanyel decided to buy an AppleTV. By default, this little box did not provide much services, but was quite easy to hack, well, why not.
Vanyel received a nice package and all was nice, and all was good. A patch was bought on atvforwindows and applied. Once again, all went well, except that the box kept hanging when files were read from another computer.
So, little Vanyel put great hopes in the next release of the patch, which would at least allow him to plug an external hard drive into the box, which is easier than uploading files on it. But that next release was not to come. Vanyel kept reading the forum, understanding people that were becoming increasingly angry at the developer (that they paid for support and received… well quite nothing), understanding the developer becoming angry at people bashing him. And Vanyel did not want to participate to the increase of the hate level.
Things kept going this way, until one day, after the third time that the release of the patch update was delayed, the whole site was closed. For « copyright reasons » and until further notice. That’s to say, just for one day. During this day, the Gestapo, the KGB and the CIA, working together, had made one moderator of the forum disappear, removed all subjects that were pointing out release problems (not only irreverent posts, the WHOLE subject) and locked the forum so that the issue cannot be raised ever again.
That’s when little Vanyel became upset. He could understand and accept many things, especially when coping with small, open-source-like projects. But censorship and dissimulation never.
So, dear CiscoTM, if you didn’t want your users to become angry at you, the least you had to do was communicate. That was all they wanted, at that time. We all are able to understand that, developing on your spare time and working for the U.S. Army, releases can be delayed. But such methods? No, no and no. Never.
I guess that your attempt at hiding evidence is doomed to fail. My negative review will obviously not be the only one.
Now, I have two options. Either I buy the patch made by another team, and depend on friends owning a Mac to create the patchsticks; either I get rid of the apple TV and try to find another media solution. I might consider an Eee box. At least I would be able to install whatever I want on it.
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