To be honest, the Transporter was an inside joke by Sean Adams, who
chuckled under his breath at audiophiles and the little rarefied world
that they live in. He designed a very nice sounding device, and gave it
an arbitrary price tag. ("Hey Tony, how does $1000 sound? That's
expensive, right?" "Nah, why don't you make it $2000?" "Sure. What the
hell.")Transporter was never where Logitech wanted to take the product line. They were hoping for something more mainstream, but could never quite make that happen financially. If they could have sold a device for $99, then Squeezebox might still be alive. Unfortunately, they inherited (bought, actually) an ecosystem that was extremely expensive to maintain, and way more rickety than they'd hoped. Forensically, their problem was that they hired a lot guys who understood the hardware, audio and networking sides of things, but they pretty thoroughly fucked up the data modeling and (to a lesser extent) the user interface. If Logitech had immediately made the decision to port the software to a native Windows application and knocked out a device for $99, I guarantee the Squeezebox would still be alive today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104431 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
