Gadgety1 wrote: > According to the Logitech market analysis I saw, the growth is in the > radio type devices, smaller, cheaper, built in speaker and amplifier, > low power where even someone with dementia could operate them. Logitech > are going for the growth segment and abandoning the stand alone high rez > Touch and Transporter type products .This for me only confirms how > incompetent these guys must be. And passive as well. They are not smart enough to make markets and they are not smart enough either to interpret data with insight.
Why because its quite instinctive and clear to me that the "growth" market they are talking about ends dominated not by appliances but by actually smartphone and tablets! iPeng player on a smartphone or small tablet sounds good enough, virtually indistinguishable from these mono radio appliances in many low end use cases - bathroom, small kitchen etc. And the smartphone/tablet is a lot more powerful. Would you rather buy a UE Radio in your kitchen or would you rather have a table that can play the same music AND all kinds of recipe book/cooking apps and so on. No brainer, actually. Also Logitech havent the slightest clue if they thing grandma who wants a kitchen radio is going to sign up online for UERadio.com account or whatever. That aint gonna happen. It might seem like a simpler thing than running a Squeezebox server but in fact its not something that is enough to break barriers. "Simple" would have to mean a brower app on the device that is directly connceted to the web, not a gateway that you need to sigh up for etc. So ultimately you want to target people who do like music and know a little something technically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Osamede's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11753 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97364 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
