erland;627166 Wrote: > I think anyone who feel that $10 for an app is problematic should start > thinking about what their iOS hardware, Squeezebox hardware and > receiver/amplifier/speakers costs. An extra $10 to make it possible to > take full advantage of the Squeezebox in comparison to what most of us > have payed for the surrounding hardware isn't that much. As I've said > previously, it's about the same price as a burger meal or two, I'm > definitely going to enjoy the Squeezebox music a lot longer than I > usually remember a burger meal.
You're right, and you're wrong. Sure, $10 is a nominal price for something that you use every day to enhance your experience with equipment for which you paid hundreds or even thousands of dollars. I happily paid it for iPeng and consider it money well spent. Unfortunately for the third-party developers, $10 is a pretty significant price point in the app world, and I fear there are many who will balk at it when there is a free, albeit vastly inferior, alternative. In taking the Squeezebox from a niche to a mass-market item, Logitech is destroying the spirit on which this product was built and which produced the majority of the early plugins that made the SB what it is today. Remember, however, that those plugins were generally offered to our little community free of charge or at most a voluntary donation. I don't dissuade Pippin and others from trying to get as much as they can for their hard work, but in the app world, $10 is a hefty price, and I fear that with a free alternative now available the third-party developers will be forced to reduce their price or become victims of the SB evolution to a mass product. -- Kyle Regards, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87212 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
