erland;665356 Wrote: > Sure, but it would require patched firmware as I think the hostname to > mysqueezebox.com is hard coded in the device firmware at the moment. > Which is easy to do on the Radio, Touch but a bit more complex for the > older models. > > > Unlikely, people are expecting it to be free, they are paying for the > premium services (Spotify, Rhapsody, ...) and mysqueezebox.com just > gives them access to the services without having a local server. Many > mysqueezebox.com users are currently only using the free internet radio > stations reachable through mysqueezebox.com, so they are currently not > paying a dime and probably want it to be free also in the future. Some > people might be willing to pay but most are just going to continue > expecting Logitech to provide it for free. > > Of course, it all depends on the annual subscription fee, but I suspect > it's hard to reach enough users who are willing to pay for it to make a > profit. > How many would pay $5 per month for mysqueezebox.com ? > How many would even pay $12 per year for mysqueezebox.com ? > How many are going to pay anything at all as long as Logitech provides > mysqueezebox.com for free (even if it's not as reliable as most people > would like) ? > What will it cost to host a high reliability solution like > mysqueezebox.com ? > How many full time developers are going to be required to get everyone > to pay an annual subscription fee ? > > It's probably fairly easy to reach 10% of the users (mostly through > people on this forum), the hard part is to reach the other 90% which > are required to make a profit. > > I personally suspect the profit has to come from hardware sales, pretty > much in similar fashion as Logitech handles it at the moment.
OK lets assume 2 things a the complexity issue can be resolved b Logitech want out. Logitech could then offer all current and potential squeezebox users the choice of using the players to purely play music from local libraries, or signing up to a ( hopefully) classy,well run,regularly updated, and most importantly, bug free modern equivalent to mysqueezebox.com For new customers, the site could be free for the first year. For existing users, 12 months notice could be given before the introduction of the charge. If the site is professional and slick from the beginning, and the initial cost of setting it up funded by Logitech, then the whole thing could be presented in a very poitive light. As to the cost of actually running it, and what the annual/monthly charge would have to be, I have no idea, but if the open source ethos of the original slimdevice could be maintained, then it could be affordable, and actually be a selling point. -- gruntwolla Debian sheeva plug running sbs 7.5.4 SB3 + my hifi Duet + AE5's 2 Booms 1 Radio Squeezecommander on htc desire ipeng on wifes iphone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gruntwolla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35645 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91090 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
