Esel2k wrote: > I totally agree with that, since streaming services started and the > predictions (ok just a prediction) seems that it will exploded in > users. > 17323 > > Now this market needs the device to play that. On the phone they have > the apps. But at home? The market is very attractive, but you need to > make your costumer pay monthly fees to make big money. > > This image come from this article that apple now start music streaming. > So there must be a huge market to gain, as soon as you catch cour > costumer to subscribe to your service. > > If now apples starts to bring out some players (just some thoughts...) > and limit their streaming service only to their players (for which they > are know for: Airplay, etc), I could see the future of home audio beeing > tied to some subscription plan only and stuff like LMS just not be a > attractive market anymore... > > Your thoughts?
Users who simply buy a device at the supermarket will likely end up as subscribers to whatever services are tied to their devices. Squeezebox is different - it offers a mix of subscription and non-sub services. Logitech screwed up by failing to recognise the strengths of their audio products and got distracted by mice, keyboards, etc. Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS + Squeezelite - Logitech Mini Boombox speaker (mothballed) Cubieboard + Debian 7 + LMS 7.8.1 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker O2 Joggler + SqpOS + Aune X2 T-amp + Mordaunt Short ms-3.40 speakers IBOX + Debian 7 + LMS 7.8.1 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker Squeeze2upnp - Sonos Play1 & Vistron internet radio (Reciva) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102809 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
