ajkidle;493532 Wrote: > I guess what I really mean to argue is that Logitech needs a formal > branded iPhone/iPod app. > Why ? How would they earn money on it ?
As I see it today Logitech will earn money on iPeng (by selling more Squeezeboxes) and they don't have to spend anything in support and development costs besides a few minutes now and then when they support third party developers. Third party development like this should really be a win for Logitech. I have no idea how much pippin has earned on iPeng but I suspect it's not close to the time he has spent designing, developing and supporting users who purchased it. I suspect the case would be the same for Logitech if they maintained it. I strongly suspect there isn't a single third party developer on the Squeezebox platform that has earned back their investment in hours of time spent developing and supporting their add-ons. Fortunately most third party developers don't do it for the money. Still, I'd be much more afraid that iPeng would die in the hands of Logitech than in the hands of the original developer. I'm personally VERY impressed with iPeng and I know there are a lot of design and development hours behind it, pippin really deserves all the credit he gets. Logitech should focus on making the software that runs on their own hardware as good as possible and to make it interesting for third party developers to do the extras. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72308 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
