Why can’t I get the same thing with an external USB drive? Bear with me a moment - what does LibraryBox do that’s better than flat file storage? Multiple connections? (Does it do caching as a way of ingesting new content for offline viewing?)
How is LibraryBox better? You would be connecting to a random wifi SSID?
> Aside from that, I believe they were indeed intended to serve multiple people at once... encampments, communities, short term installations, etc.
Almost any computing device on a network can share files this way, with a bit of configuration.
> Almost any computing device on a network can share files this way, with a bit of configuration.
LibraryBox is designed to be a deployable appliance that works where no network exists that's configurable by non-technical people. Nobody even intimated it was a novel technical approach to physically transferring data. You could pick any method of transferring data and say, "well why didn't they just use [method]?" I suspect you're just hunting for opportunities to make critical comments.
> LibraryBox is designed to be a deployable appliance that works where no network exists that's configurable by non-technical people.
Yes, that is valuable.
Plus, it can be easily "hidden" and remain available without its owner babysitting the hardware.