Mnyb wrote: > So let me get this Beats buy MOG but does not want its userbase and > makes changes that alientaes many old MOG users (it's not only the > missing SB support ) ? First, where do you get the idea they don't want MOG's user base? I think they may have migrated MOG users' playlists to Beats although I'm not sure about that. I am sure that they offered the first month of Beats free to MOG users. And Beats is available on Sonos and on the web. SB just didn't make the cut -- they didn't want SB users enough to invest a little bit of effort in transitioning the plugin/API to SB.
Where Beats is departing from the MOG model, which fits in completely with the Apple acquisition (as garym notes), is the emphasis on streaming over wireless phone networks, as opposed to wifi. It's sometimes tough to figure out what the real purpose of acquisitions are. Buying music rights, obscure intellectual property rights or patents, squashing a potential competitor, positioning the company to be acquired by someone else, or sheer misunderstanding of what they're buying. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101850 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
