In an all-Apple environment, what would AxiomAir add to existing apps, e.g. Music, Remote, Podcasts? Direct volume control is one thing I can see, but not sure what other advantages AxiomAir would offer.
This is a very interesting question and it speaks to one of the core features of our system: flexibility. Within a complete Apple ecosystem, a single AxiomAir could simply be treated as an AirPlay speaker, playing back audio from your iPhone, iPad, or iTunes. You use the interfaces you know and are familiar with and there is no learning curve. The only addition here is fantastic audio quality. However, what if a friend or relative visits with a new song on their device that they really want you to hear, and it happens to be an Android device? You could certainly connect the device to your computer running iTunes and copy over the file, add it to iTunes, and play it back over your existing interface (I won't comment on the legal copyright aspects of doing that!). Hopefully the file is in a format that iTunes can deal with...something like FLAC would need to be converted first, or a plugin added to iTunes. All pretty clunky compared to just streaming the song over uPnP to AxiomAir directly! The other benefit is multi-room. The AirPlay standard does not support multi-room or sync, except in a rudimentary manner from iTunes 10 onward. A whole home system of AxiomAirs can simply connect to your existing iTunes music folder and provide seamless, in sync, whole home audio. So really the choice is in your hands, AxiomAir is flexible enough to allow you to choose how you want to use it.
Thanks,
Andrew
