I'm torn here. There's so many ways to get your music from anywhere to
anywhere, unlike when I purchased my (still-running) SB2 nearly six
years ago, when it was one of the few options.  There's still a lot of
players and for most users the simplest solution will win.  That's
probably AirPlay if you're an Apple user, otherwise it's DLNA or
whatever.  Only if you care about sound or have a large library do you
need something better.   There will always be a market for those people
and I don't know how well Logitech is prepared to handle that market in
the future.  I think they don't know if they're going for that market
or the mass media market, and thus they're not really anywhere.

I do think as well they lose some business to Sonos.  Hey, we all know
its limitations and that it's expensive, but it's also dirt simple for
people who have a little extra money to spend.  Running a server
doesn't fly for many people.  (I love it, because I can tweak
things--in fact, I plan on upgrading my home server in a few weeks.) 
Then again I just got a friend with a Duet to install Slimserver and
he's now ripping his CDs to FLAC, wheras before they just used
mysqueezebox streaming.


I feel bad in some ways becuase Logitech hasn't gotten a penny of
revenue from me--my SB2 just keeps working.  If it died today I'd
probably buy a Touch and keep on keeping on, but I would like to know
the future of the Squeezebox platform, or at least hear from Logitech
what their commitment to the platform is.


-- 
mrfantasy

--Mike
http://last.fm/user/mrfantasy
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