erland;671554 Wrote: > If you ask me, this was a very positive message, because it shows that: > 1. Logitech is aware that they need to focus on the user experience to > make the products a success, something they haven't done during the > last years with all the technical non music and non user related > focus. > 2. Logitech is planning for a future and doesn't plan to abandon the > Squeezebox products as some people seems to think. > 3. Logitech are aware of the fact that even if some people doesn't like > it online streaming services is important for a success among the > masses. > 4. Logitech are aware that they can't drop important features that > exist today, like playback of locally stored music. > > If I ask more or less any of my friends when they last purchased a CD, > it's not during the last years, they all get their music through other > channels than CD's these days. Some purchase music as electronic > downloads from Apple, some of gets music from torrent sites, but most > of them just gets music from online streaming services. I'm not sure > how it looks like in other countries but I'm imagining it's going to be > pretty much the same situation everywhere around the world fairly soon. > > Audiophiles are still going to want the CD because of the quality > difference, but Logitech can't target audiophiles because on that > market they are going to compete with HiFi manufacturers and most > audiophiles are going to trust something with a HiFi manufacturer logo > on the front a lot more than something with a Logitech logo on the > front.
I was not convinced about point 4 the rest I agree . If local playback gets really small compared to streaming it might be seen as just a cost and deleted. But on the other hand there is no big difference from the current situation with very slow unguided development . "bugfixes and better MOG" was all that was in future plans no 7.8 or 8.0 repo says something too ? "Many of our developments aren't absolutely necessary any more, and we need to rework the product from start" ugh . What could be scrapped from the very limited functionality it has, it cant even manage playlist that are not playing on any player (without plugins) ? Things could get reworked in a more user friendly fashion but that's another angle. And this "Naturally, we'll keep the features our users have liked so far" seems promising but which users ? all the web Radio only users that are unaware of the local playback possibilities . -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91532 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
