dBerriff;455311 Wrote: > > In my humble opinion, Logitech can fiddle around all they want with the > front-end (and I believe they already have the best solutions) but if > the ripping/tagging/WiFi/distribution back-end stays as it is then the > various Squeeze devices will remain a mail-order only (I speak for the > UK) niche product. >
I think that just PLAYING MUSIC AT ANYTHING ABOVE LOW FIDELITY is a niche market right now. For the most part, people are listening to low-fi all-in-one stereo systems, either via CDs or by plugging in their iPods, or maybe playing music back from CDs or iPod on their $299 home-theater-in-a-box system. Few people have the patience to either buy or hook up even a modest hi-fidelity (note I am NOT using the oft-pejorative term "audiophile") system. So I think that the market for any network music player is somewhat limited. That's why the iTunes integration is so important - most people who have digital music collections only have them because they wanted to get their existing CD collection onto their iPods. I think that the Radio in particular may be the breakout product; it's cheap enough ($199) so that people will buy it without much agony. As long as SqueezeCenter's iTunes integration continues to work reasonably well, it will not be a big effort. Then they'll start figuring out what they are missing and start looking at the Touch, Boom, etc. -- kmr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kmr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67399 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
