sgmlaw wrote: > Now that Logitech has clumsily killed their baby, why doesn't the > original Slim Devices team just buy the essential IP and keep it going? > It should be cheaper than what Logitech paid for it, and I'm sure Andy > knows how to revive it in the right direction again.
Logitech is a company with shareholders, they will not have killed off the Squeezebox line as an oversight, but on the basis of success and profitability. IMHO the major problems with squeeze stuff has been engineering and marketing. Conceptually the idea is good, but the implementation have always required a geek approach to support the product. Features have disappeared as changes have been made to support newer features. The direction of the product has lacked coherency, the duet should have cleaned up in the mass market, but the configuration and operation compared with say Apple TV, too much for retailers and users to handle. The marketing is Logitech's fault. There was/is none. Audio and entertainment products are sold through a given set of retailers. Some of those did take the product on, but very few sustained that approach. Marketing monies disappeared, leaving distribution to Internet and computer retail only. Frankly unless the plug and play nature of the product could be improved radically, along with appropriate price levels, I think the product has little future no matter who owns it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DaveWr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97364 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
