I got into SB through Pandora, I started listening to Pandora and followed the links from the site...I don't see why the same concept can't occur for iPhone but who knows on what level that would be
Dogberry2;363923 Wrote: > Not everyone on the planet gets a hardon over iPhones and the apps that > can be shoehorned into them. It makes more sense for Logitech to keep > their SlimDevices team focused on SD products. I have trouble buying > the notion that millions of people are going to go through a mental > process along the lines of, hey, I have an iPhone; I wonder what > neato-keen apps I can put on it; oh, look! there's this app for > something called SqueezeBox, I wonder what that is?; hey, that looks > like a cool app so I think I'll go buy some SqueezeBoxes so I'll have a > reason to install and use this cool iPhone app. Maybe it really would > make SBs fly off the shelves, but it doesn't sound like a rock-solid > foundation for a business plan to me. The target market for SBs is not > identical to that for iPhones, despite the fact that there will > obviously be some overlap. I like the fact that Slim has focused on > -music- and targeted people who are interested in music; a phone (even > a glitzy one with gee-whiz gizmos) isn't what music lovers think of > when they're looking for a music system. Since the SD software is open > source, if there's a real market for iPhone tie-ins, somebody will > develop them, and Slim will profit from it by selling hardware. But > taking resources from their engineering development pool to work for > Apple, when they could be improving their own products doesn't make > much sense. -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55543 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
