erland;644961 Wrote: > > ... > The normal non geek users, will instead: > - Attach a USB drive directly to the Squeezebox Touch (which is running > Linux by the way) and accept the poor performance and reliability. > Or > - Run a Windows machine and continue being annoyed that they have to > wait for it to start-up every time they like to play music. > > So I believe the reason Linux is a lot bigger among Squeezebox users is > because: > 1. The above mentioned scenarios > 2. Squeezebox is a geeky product and due to this attracts Linux users > more than other similar products usually do. > > If Logitech want to advance into the mass market, the solution is not > to focus on Windows, the solution is to focus on getting rid of the > need to have a computer in the system at all. This is easiest to > accomplish by investing in mysqueezebox.com and online streaming > services and by offering a working hardware player which works reliable > with a locally attached USB drive. The Touch exists but we all know it > isn't reliable with a USB drive attached and its performance is > certainly not as good as most of us expect when used in this mode. > > ... >
I more or less agree with you, but not exactly. Yes people do prefer a system without PC. That's why I always insisted on the fact that TinySBS should have been worked out to be usable. It could have been done (prevent undesired rescans, allow the scan to be done with a PC and then used with Touch, etc ...) It wasn't done. Normal non geek users won't do what you say. TinySBS is not usable for normal non geek use, and as you say, PC is not desired ... So they simply won't use Squeezeboxes, that's all , that's why squeezeboxes fail in this market. Why Linux is a lot bigger among Squeezebox users ? The answer is so simple ... It is because non geek users don't use it at all, no need to look for another explanation. What could be done for that ? No need to blame developer team, it woud'nt be fair. The team is not big enough to develop and test for so many platforms, and for the mass non geek market. That's why I say that it would be better to focus on Windows/OSX, and even forget linux for the moment, if it is necessary to achieve good Windows/OSX support. In my opinion the right path is not even there. Logitech cannot have a team to develop a good, reliable, competitive, server software acceptable for mass market. I am not sure they are able to settle a good mysqueezebox.com service for mass market either. I would focus on the firmwares, provide some dev toolkit to control squeezeboxes hardware, make some partnership with softwares like JRiver for example. The point is to control Squeezeboxes without any SBS or LMS, but with Foobar, MediaMonkey, Jriver, etc ... plugins The only thing which could worked out at Logitech would be a basic TinySBS to use a Touch without anything else. Squeezebox hardware is great and highly competitive. Squeezeboxes software is everything but that. -- nicolas75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicolas75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89143 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
