Nstream for Android

Technological issues aside, isn't the decision to go with Apple based in part on the marketing ploy of associating Naim's products with another brand with a similar claim to exclusivity? Naim for Bentley? Of course! Naim for Volkswagen? Hardly....

@CowboyToy, my dealer in Denmark also told me that there would be an Android app ready after the summer holiday in 2012, so you're definitely not the only one who was led to believe an Android app would be available a long time ago

I've also got a £250 Denon streamer which has an Android app ..... 

Phi Harris - our main development is on the iOS platform as we feel that the iOS platform provides the user experience that we wish to provide for our products.

The questions is - what experience do your users want

+1

Just as the SinS household acquires another Android device for a family member.

Luckily we have a  rather dog eared ipad1 for Naim duties.. as long as it keeps going.

Simon

That's a very tenuous position to take. Naim stated as far back as 2011 an Android version was in the works:

https://www.facebook.com/NaimA...ts/10150845786190300

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Hi David, we are looking at Android so don't worry. Quite a few of us here at Naim have Android phones so we are putting pressure on the R&D bods, but it takes time to develop. We had to choose a platform to start developing on first, which was iPhone and we've since moved onto iPad. Next we will move onto non-Apple platforms.
7 October 2011 at 16:40

Asking for something a bit more concrete than "it's planned, but there's no plan" isn't too much to ask for two years later.

If there's not going to be one, why don't you just say so?

Me, too, am very disappointed on this android n-stream topic. The problem is not that there is none. The problem is the lack of information. I am waiting since January 2013 for the android app to show up, after naim mentioned it in December 2012 (IIRC). If I had known that there will be no such app in 2013, I already had bought an ipad mini or ipod touch months ago.

(Even if I do not want apple in my house, because they do not work fine together with linux that I am using on my PC. itunes is not available for linux. Also itunes does feel so very uncomfortable in my opinion. Very confusing. It is much more simple to just connect the android phone to the PC and dragNdrop files to it. And also from it to the PC! The whole Apple world feels so very unopen. Creating backups is the only really good functionality of itunes.)

Oh dear.

And the increasing number of Andriod users will look elsewhere for streaming products:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/artic...arket-ipad-share.htm

I am at a loss to understand this point - I used an iPad for over a month before I purchased an Android tablet. Two reasons why I would not swap it for an iPad are availability of extra storage using SD cards and superior connectivity - e.g. built in HDMI.

The only user experience I am missing out on is paying at least 3 times as much for the same functionality!

Very disappointing. I bought a Qute2 earlier this year thinking we would get an Android app soon. While I can mostly get away with using Bubble, it isn't flawless and doesn't provide complete control or access to radio.

I will not be demoing a streamer for the main system until an Android app appears -- that is the user experience *I* wish for. I will put thoughts of an NDS out of my mind.

May well put me off buying a naim all in one. Don't want to have to add the cost of some overpriced fashion accessory.

You're right but at the same time it's sad to know that it was told a couple of time that the application will come soon on android but in fact it's not already started... well... it's sad... That doensn't change the fact that naim product are awesome and if i bought a NDS it's not 350$ that will change my mind but an android app would be more than welcome for me.

Do they really charge $250 for the remote control? That's pretty rude. 

For me it's simply the fact I don't want another tablet in my living room. The Uniti is about reducing clutter. I don't want to switch everything else I do with my tablet to an iPad simply for a remote control app.

As for competition, Linn is the obvious one that comes to mind. Krell also has a streamer and an Android app. Chord Electronics claims to be developing an Android app, but their position sounds similar to Naim's, i.e. iOS first, maybe Android later. I wouldn't call any of those inferior.

Better take off your hunch.

I've bought Powerlines, Hilines etc over the years but have no intention of buying an i-thing.

Three people (SU + Powerline)

Using Bubbleupnp is less of a pain than springing for another tablet so I'm staying with Naim but am very pissed off. Not a huge worry for them I imagine, but I do have faith that they will eventually bring their software infrastructure up to the same level as their excellent hardware so I'm hanging in there. In the meantime they need to know how their lack of delivery is perceived or they will continue in the delusion that their current performance is adequate.

When I bought my Naim kit two years ago, I also bought an Ipad. Just for the remote function. I didn't have a tablet or smartphone back then because I didn't need it.

What I think is a bit sad are two things:

- n-stream misses some simple functionality like forward/reverse (for mp3 still missing) and listening to radio while browsing music files. Friends always think it's odd that an expensive system doesn't have those simple features.

- the other thing is: it's just an app for control. It has nothing to do with the quality of the music. How hard can it be? The functionality is already in the streamer, you just need a signal via wifi/ethernet from the control device. Why not outsource it to an app building company? This way Naim can focus on their core business.