pippin;426780 Wrote: 
> I pledge to disagree on this.
> I believe that upcoming SD products need MORE not less mass market
> appeal. For two reasons:
> 
> 1. They need to come out of the "techie" corner. The whole architecture
> needs a better integration UI wise or it will never be possible to sell
> this to people who do not WANT to get involved. I have good hopes here
> since from the discussions I'm seeing a lot of work is currently being
> put into this
> 
> 2. If you don't get out of the techie corner and create volume, I'm
> afraid this will be pushed out of the market, after all this is too much
> of a "systems" business to work in the niche alone
> 
> I don't think you have to become as cheap as to offer bad quality,
> though. Actually, the Logitech mice I own do have a much better quality
> appeal than some others, more expensive ones I accidentally came to own.

While I agree with your reasoning, I am afraid in order to get out of
the "techie" corner would be to abandon the central server aspect of the
Squeezebox.  And as I am sure you know the central server aspect allows
you to do some neat tricks that can not be done with a UPnP setup.

Many people seem to not undestand about the Squeezebox is that it is a
client/server model and that just confuses non-techies.  I can not see
how you can eliminate that source of confusion without eliminating the
server.


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