mortslim wrote: > I believe the Squeezeboxes are "end of life". There most likely won't > be any improvements to the line hardware-wise and no new apps. > > However the corporation Logitech will continue and because of the large > squeezebox user base, it is very doubtful that the mysqueezebox.com > service will ever disappear. Cloud hosting services are getting cheaper > by the day, so it won't cost much for Logitech to maintain this > database. > If we assume you are correct regarding Squeezebox "end of life" (which I don't think you are, at least not yet), my belief is that there are three reasons for Logitech to keep mysqueezebox.com running after stop selling Squeezeboxes: - To avoid breaking previously sold Squeezeboxes which are still under warranty period. - If they can earn money on keeping it up and running (I doubt this is the case if they don't sell new Squeezebox hardware and don't keep services provided by mysqueezebox.com working). - If they can make mysqueezebox.com work with non Squeezebox hardware and due to this earn money indirectly on it by selling new non Squeezebox hardware.
Keeping it running even at low costs just to keep customers happy is unlikely to happen unless they earn money on it or unless they get increased costs by shutting it down (through a lot of warranty returns). So from my perspective this means that after the last Squeezebox is sold they will likely try to keep mysqueezebox.com running for 1-3 years and then shut it down unless they can make it work with non Squeezebox hardware. However, even without mysqueezebox.com, I'm not that worried about support for streaming services, because if Logitech doesn't provide support for them I'm fairly sure that there are service providers which are interested in letting some third party developer offer support for their service on the Squeezebox platform when Logitech's solution stops to work. Similar to the support we have already today for Spotify with Triode's Spotify plugin. Of course, this whole discussion is very theoretical because Logitech are still selling Squeezeboxes and just a few months ago they scaled up mysqueezebox.com to be able to handle higher load and they are trying to hire additional people where they mention Squeezebox in the role descriptions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
