------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Is third party plugins/applets important for your Squeezebox purchases ? - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless support for third party development is prioritized - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless the third party plugins I rely on is supported - I use third party plugins but I would still consider buying more Squeezebox products without them - I don't use third party plugins so they aren't important to my Squeezebox purchases ------------------------------------------------------------------------
The popularity of 3rd party plugins should be treated as invaluable customer feedback. Logitech--do you gather informtion about installed 3rd party plugins in your "Report Statistics"? There are a lot of other mass market products that are really really good already. Microsoft's XBox 360 and Windows Media Center look great and have everything most people care about, and I hear good things about PS3. I really wonder how smart it is to take on Microsoft, Sony and Sonos head on. 70% of the time I listen to music, one of Erland's plugins is controlling the experience. Squeezebox, with plugins, especially Erland's query-power, gives me the fine-grained experience I want. Without that, I'm probably going to go cobble together some kind of Windows solution--dump everything into my own SQL database and output playlists that work with some kind of software player. I understand that you need to go in a new direction and boost market share. But I think it's a really bad idea not to take the benefits of open source and 3rd party creativity with you. That's a resource you have that none of your major competitors do. A great deal of the current value of Squeezebox is that it's a platform, not just a player. Does it really make sense to throw that away? -- mikelee999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mikelee999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
