JJZolx wrote: > Unfortunately, they inherited (bought, actually) an ecosystem that was > extremely expensive to maintain, and way more rickety than they'd hoped. Funny that. I've never had any reliability problems with any version of SlimServer/SqueezeCenter/LMS. I've run various incarnations on FreeBSD, Win2000, Ubuntu and Fedora. It always just worked. So I can't understand where you get your idea of "rickety" from.
Or perhaps you're speaking in terms of the development and support effort required. I guess that's possible, but I don't have any inside knowledge of what their software guys had to deal with. JJZolx wrote: > Forensically, their problem was that they hired a lot of 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. Seems to me that what Logitech actually did was see that there might be money to be made from the streaming audio market, and so took a punt on buying a semi-mature technology to try and enter that marketplace. It only cost what for them was petty cash. Unfortunately they never understood the Slim Devices vision so had no idea where to take things. Everyone seems to think that in hardware terms the Touch was the crowning glory, but it was the beginning of the end - a "non-slim Slim Device", as it were. By trying to put some of the intelligence into the player, they completely missed the point of how the ecosystem was supposed to work. Luckily for customers who did understand the system, they could ignore the cut-down server they tried to put on the Touch and just use it as a player. But it was presented to the mass market as an all-in-one solution, and that just didn't work. What Logitech should have done is release some sort of LMS appliance so they could sell a turnkey server and stick with genuinely slim players. If they couldn't even figure out how to do that, they could have bought Vortexbox for much less than they paid for Slim Devices. JJZolx wrote: > 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. Perhaps something would still be alive, but it wouldn't be much like the Squeezebox system we know and love. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104431 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
