garym wrote: > Not sure about fair or not fair. Businesses make decisions all the time > that are good for some and bad for others. Logitech certainly should be > held to meeting any legal contractual obligation they have for > supporting products they've sold (which might be keeping mysb.com alive > for 2 years), but otherwise they can make any decisions they think are > best for their shareholders. But I also don't see the "worthless" > argument. First, these devices are not "investments". They are products > to be used until they don't work any more. And with LMS running on a > local PC/NAS, these devices can work for many, many years. With local > LMS, I can listen to all my own music, I can listen to internet radio > (where I have the URLs saved as favorites), I can use Spotify (with > Triode's plugin). If mysb.com shut down tomorrow, I'd lose ability to > listen to siriusXM and Pandora and I assume I'd lose the ability to > scrobble my played music to last.fm. But I'd have 99% of the benefits I > currently have. But the key of course is that I never use > mysqueezebox.com as the actual server. I have LMS running on a 24/7 > server (vortexbox). I'm so confident of continued benefit from the > squeeze system, that I picked up 3 extra Touches and 3 extra radios when > they announced the discontinuation.
Thanks Gary. Yes, I also use LMS and I definitely appreciate the advantages over msb.com. But, I really enjoy Sirius stations,Slacker,and MOG. Most of my playlists consists of tracks from MOG . So, these would be lost with no msb.com. And ,yes, I believe that Pandora would be lost,too. Oh well, it just seems to me that when LOGITECH sells us a RADIO device (and I have several),that they have a moral and LEGAL obligation to the consumer to support the functionality of that device. It's not like we purchased a dumbbell or a paperweight. The product we purchased is a radio and that radio relies on a signal to be a RADIO. That signal is an implied integral part of that radio which we purchased. I think this would be upheld in court,imho. But....as it stands there are no indications that msb.com is going to be dropped. And so, LOGITECH has not lost my faith and trust. Of course, I am not happy about some lay-offs that I understand that have taken place. That bothers me....but it is one of the unfortunate heartless realities of businesses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ikabob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98208 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
