Maybe what you're missing is the new direction being taken by Logitech. If they continue to sell players only to folks like you and I then they'll probably have to shut down the Streaming Business Unit as unprofitable and write off the acquisition of Slim Devices as a mistake. They need to sell products to people who can't figure out how to use email and those who think they're saving the planet by not running a server. If they can sell $300 music players to people who only listen to Rhapsody and Last.fm and the 35 CDs that they own, then they'll make money. If that segment of the market becomes the bulk of their sales, then they'll make a lot of money.
Our only hope is that in the process of shifting their focus, it doesn't shift so far that it makes our usage model so far out of the ordinary that we're seen as an unimportant segment of the market. So far, it doesn't look like that will happen any time soon, although the increased focus on SqueezeNetwork is certainly a hint of things to come. At least we can be 100% certain of one thing: The players that we have today will continue to work with the software that we have today (excluding eventual device failure). Right now, even though there are 100's of improvements that could be made to the software, it does 99% of what it needs to do - play my music collection on my Squeezebox players. If/when it all goes south, I'll just freeze at the version of the software that I like. When some new player from another company comes along that I like better, then all the SD and Logitech gear gets sold and we move on. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67399 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
