audiomuze;495743 Wrote: > > > ... > > Given the above, it strikes me that the Squeezebox finds itself in a > peculiar situation: focus on Audio and do that well, which confines the > Squeezebox family to people who are serious about their music; or try to > compete in the converged media space, which means Squeezebox has serious > catching up to do. > > ... > > Looking at the current situation it appears to me that Squeezebox is > being pitched at the general consumer, which means it's going to find > itself competing in the converged media space, where, quite frankly, I > don't think it stands a chance because it's a one trick pony (audio). > So, in closing this rather lengthy post, IMHO Logitech are going to > have to decide where they want to play with the Squeezebox range. Lack > of clarity and resultant focus will have only one outcome: obliteration!
Personally, I like the fact that the SB is a "one-trick pony". However, I think you are right audiomuze - with media players that support a wider variety of media becoming commonplace, the SB will have a really rough time competing. When I discuss my SB with my techie friends, they think it is pretty cool. However, they are more interested in a media streaming device that does video too. Their answer to me is "my video streamer plays mp3 and FLAC, why would I want a seperate box just for audio?". I try to explain about gapless playback, syncing of players, etc, but they don't care. My fear about convergance is that you will see devices that do everything in a mediocre fashion rather than devices that do something really well. These devices would be the hybrid bikes (road bike/mountain bike combo) of media streamers - yuk! Since the SB does audio really well, perhaps they could build upon that and add other capabilities without damaging the core audio capability. That would at least keep their current user base happy. I wonder if the SB line can move from being niche devices without embracing convergance. And can the SB line survive long-term as a niche device? -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 3 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 30,015 songs, 2,448 albums, 451 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
