tigersim wrote: > > As for a new business entity taking it on, well I'm sure most people > here would wish any such venture the very best, but with my objective > hat on I'm not sure I can yet see a strong enough commercial case - one > that would stand on pure business merits, independent of 'blind' > enthusiasm for the product (I've been at the sharp end of running a > tech start-up and learned some hard but valuable lessons on that > front... ;)) I would love to be proved wrong however. > If anyone wants to fill the hole they would obviously have to find a different business model/perspective compared to what Logitech have used. Logitech has already shown that their way of doing it didn't work, that's why they shut it down.
tigersim wrote: > Now, I say they are probably doing the right thing - as far as intent is > concerned. Whether their implementation of that intent hits the mark > commercially - the products, support and marketing they come up with - > remains to be seen. They will be exchanging one problem (geeky niche > customer base) for another (saturated, highly competitive mainstream). > Whether they can make that fly will be up to them. > If their intent is to try to reach the masses and make the device more appealing to more users, that's definitely a move in the right direction. However, having tried the UE Smart Radio solution, I really got to say that even though the way they have removed the need to switch between different servers is something I really love, there are other aspects that really makes it a harder and less enjoyable to use than a traditional Squeezebox even for non geeks. If your intention is to use it to listen to a song now and then or use it for continuous background internet radio listening, it might work great, but for that kind of usage I'm skeptical if people is prepared to buy a $180 device. Since they decided to include the battery it's even more expensive than the Squeezebox Radio was, which feels kind of strange if they want to target the masses. So I'm a bit skeptical at the moment, but as long as the UE Smart Radio effort results in that they will spend some resources to also support LMS/mysqueezebox.com since the software is almost identical, my hope is that I'm wrong and the UE Smart Radio will be a great success for them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96572 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
