bluegaspode;494140 Wrote: 
> 
> This neat little link to the Sonos-site pippin gave WILL draw people to
> the dark side *g*. We are all gadget lovers and so are all iPhone-owners
> even more.
> 

Well, I mainly wanted to point out what you can do. The advertising
itself (by Sonos) is bullshit. Especially in it's elevated form (not the
one I linked, but didn't immediately find a better link) where they
claim that the S5 is "best for iPhone users" while indeed there is
absolutely no difference between the S5 and the other Sonos units WRT
iPhone support, nothing new here.

In fact it's the other way around since lacking controls the S5 is
pretty much useless as a standalone device if you do NOT already own an
iThingy.

But it draws attention.

BTW, you are all thinking way tooo complicated on that marketing thing
:)

Anyway, I think we all agree that promoting 3rd party developers would
be the biggest gain for Logitech, but I doubt that 250k$ will buy you a
lot here. It's not about money but about a develoment strategy that
supports 3rd party development, providing stable APIs and development
support. That will cost much more than that, but quite frankly, I
believe doing this would save 10 times it's cost even internally (at
Logitech) in QA savings. But that's just my 2cts.

And in Logitech's defense: they DID try to hire me, almost 2 years ago
and if I had accepted, (see Michael's remark) iPeng would now probably
be called the Logitech(R) Squeezebox(TM) Controller for iPhone and act
exactly like the Squeezebox Controller.


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