Pascal Hibon wrote: > I believe you need to make a distinguish between technical knowledgeable > customers and customers without technical knowledge. > For sure, those of us who are able to get a Pi or whatever hardware > running as a streamer won't pay that kind of money. But there are far > more customers out there who can't do that. It are these people who will > pay a premium for a streamer. > So, there sure would be a possible market for a "Squeezebox client" like > product if LMS wouldn't be a requirement. The LMS part is yet another > reason why it doesn't happen. Apart from the possible technical > challenges of having to setup an LMS server (again a certain level of > technical knowledge required) there is still the fact that LMS is an End > Of Live product. There is no sane manufacture out there who will design > and produce a product based up on an EOL product (which they even do not > own). The financial risks are way to high.
The bulk of LMS is open source is it not (from the old Slim Devices days)?, and still being developed upon by users of this very forum.. I don't see why it would be such an issue if you were to bundle LMS into a streamer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22702 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102809 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
