ok, usual rant: I'm really wondering if/why Logitech should not reconsider entering this market again now. Sonos seems to be doing very well and other have entered (Bose, Samsung, Denon ...). More precisely, I feel Slimdevices have been too early on that market, but now seems to be the right time for 2 reasons
- Market awareness - Technology On awareness, now there is a special area in most of the retail stores dedicated to multiroom audio system. That was not the case before and I can remember when Slimdevices/Logitech was the only game in town, nobody in retails stores new where to display these and vendors had no idea how to promote them. They where roating between audio and computer spaces. Consumer awarness is a chicken and egg problem, but that is solved now. On technology, the need for a dedicated PC was big problem for many consumers. It was a combination of non always-on computer and also very crashy Windows that made the system poorly available. Online version was interesting but that was not the years of streaming and high speed internet access was not broadly available. Now thing have changed thanks to the progress in small computers (ARM-based), gigantic improvment in WiFi space (11b speed together with devices interop was a real problem), availability of high speed internet and widespread use of smartphones (remote control was a problem and the duet controller was good but probably not good enough). So now, you can have a cheap, dedicated, power-efficient micro computer that runs LMS and use smartphones. Consumer like the space and internet speed is here. If people do not like the web-based GUI, a dedicated desktop app can easily be developped, like Sonos and still use LMS as it is. I'm a Sonos user as well, but the flexibility of LMS is really unsurpassed. Come-on Logitech, you can do great in consumer space and satisfy the (reasonnable) audiophile as well :) LMS 7.7.2 - 5 radio, 3 Boom, 4 Duet, 1 Touch, 1 SB2. Sonos 2xPLAY:1, PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBMC, Foobar2000, XBoxOne (sort of) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
