Osamede wrote: > Actually since I first encountered the SB Touch, the thing I have kept > wondering is why Logitech never pushed this direction more aggressively > - as in having the Squeezebox receiver functionality licenced to > receiver manufactuers. Or even better, actually embedding the entire > thing, including touch screen and control functionality within a > receiver. > > It makes sense - if you look at AV receivers, they are supposed to be > control units for home AV. But they all suck and their media streaming > capabilties sucks even more. The gap - the opportunity - has been there. > At least until they all went for so-called "Airplay". > > So I could never understand why this was not happening. Until I realised > that the receiver makers are even more lame than Logitech.
The software would had to have been much more reliable for anyone else to adopt something that was dependent on Slim Server. That never happened. Slim Devices didn't have the financial resources. And Logitech spent all their time chasing their own tails, worrying about half-assed support for every second rate music service startup, and trying to get new products out the door with whatever functionality they could manage. Imagine a customer has a problem. Probably 95+% of the time, if Squeezebox experience is any indication, it's a server problem. Who supports that? How do server problems get fixed when a receiver manufacturer is getting calls because half their customers' libraries aren't being scanned correctly. It would have been a f***ing nightmare, and little wonder that nobody ever based a third party player product on the Squeezebox system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96231 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
