the biggest mistake was that they bought something they clearly didn't understand.
the second biggest mistake is that the business model was idiotic. the hardware cost way too much, was a one time thing, and didn't fund what actually cost them money, which was development of a slow, lumbering, hunk of shit server that no one wanted to use. what Logitech should have done, imo, was focus on the hardware as media extenders for existing software that others develop and maintain. so it could work with winamp, iTunes, wmp, whatever. why they thought people would flock to a buggy server with a webui, I will never understand. not to mention it HAD to use the server. they should sell it off. whoever buys it should adapt the hardware to work as I describe above, and then its just a matter of the hardware being better than other hardware and competing and finding a niche that way. let it work with any and everything out there, via a simple plugin or some kind of OS level middleman whose only job is to get the audio to the device. and no reason some hardware couldn't keep slim proto and some kind of unfinanced but encouraged community rewrite of server could be done, that strips away all the horseshit and addresses bugs and requests long since ignored. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BJW's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98450 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
