slimfast wrote: > It does seem like the general consumer prefers to use their phone/tablet > with a speaker for portable music around the house rather than something > like a WiFi based internet radio or streamer box.
I wouldn't say that's is an incorrect statement, but I'd argue that bluetooth speakers and wi-fi audio streaming players are different and distinct markets. Just ask Sonos. Sonos has grown many times over in recent years, and you can pick up Sonos gear in the aisles at Target, which is 100% general consumer targeted. There is a market for this kind of product, Squeezebox just lost (or rather, Logitech let it lose). I have a neighbor who I could not sell on the Squeezebox product concept but just bought a Sonos system for only one purpose: MLB Gameday Audio. He can't stop talking about how awesome it is, and I'd guess his next step is to buy more of them and sync them up through his house (driving his wife insane no doubt, but still). For the record, I tried to get that to happen on Squeezebox in 2007 or so but MLB wanted a ridiculous fee for the "right for us to give them more paying customers". IIRC, it was in the neighborhood of $250K. Not that I'm a general consumer, but I've got a Logitech UE Mini Boombox in my house, and it gets about 1% of the play that my squeezeboxes (11 of them) do. cheers, #!/ben Former Logitech Developer: Squeezeplay/SqueezeOS/SqueezeboxController/SqueezeCenter Community Developer: Nokia770Skin (r.i.p.) http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ 'KHAAAN!' (http://khaaan.com/)...'BUNNIES!' (http://bettychuenglishangora.com/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101425 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
