Some thoughts from me... Slim Devices was very much an advanced niche product bought by a company that generally deals in mass market peripherals, it seems to me that the old slim devices team/products have become lost in the big logitech pool, treading water, all marketing has been removed, the team has been reduced and no-one knows whether additional products will be released. On the plus side, the Touch and Radio products were well received I believe, would be interested to see the sales stats for those also.
On top of that user habits have changed in the last few years, I think with the advent of smartphones that a lot of people want jack of all trade devices for home, and as mentioned music systems seem to be less of importance compared to tv/home theatre type systems and thats where the money for streaming will be spent more I believe in the future. The SB product range is for music fans generally however doesn't have the mass market appeal - lets face it the mass market either runs iTunes from a PC, has an ipod/iphone docked music player or a way of plugging their ipod/iphone into - having network streamed players is beyond the capabilities of most. Sonos appeals more to people with more cash as its plug and play but they have desperately tried to hang-on to the Apple generation by pushing iPhone/iPad apps/ipod docks more then their own controllers for example. I don't know which way the product line will go, for me my current set-up works very well and as a music lover I can't ask for anymore, I have all my local music mixed with internet radio and online services, sure there are improvements here and there but it does exactly what I want -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87951 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
