I agree that this is a bummer, and I'm trying to decide on picking up a spare Touch. Right now I have a Touch, a Boom, and a Radio (n.b. Touch Boom Radio would be an excellent name for a band). The quality of sound, multi-room playback, and apps are all important to me, but if I loose the apps and services it wouldn't kill me.
Logitech's move to a more "closed" system to create a simpler user experience (if that is what it does) is understandable even if it is misguided. I wonder, too, if the increasing community of developers and devices utilizing the LMS backbone without the need of SB devices is a part of the picture as well. As Pippin wrote on another thread "All you need is an iPhone, a dock, and iPeng." True enough...but what's in that for Logitech? Logitech is first and foremost a hardware vendor: why should they provide the back end if they don't get to sell the front end? Apple has had pretty good luck with a similar philosophy: we make great software, but you need to buy our hardware to get it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cjfreitag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41363 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96190 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
