toby10 wrote: > > It's dead as a viable consumer product offering. Well, I am not sure. I don't know much these products, but SONOS is sold everywhere and Bose have also a similar (?) product line. Anyway, people say they're very easy to use, which is not the case with LMS. LMS is too complicated for old people and also for most of the young people. They have their phone, a bluetooth connection and a speaker and that's enough.
LMS would have to be easier to use if logitech wanted to start selling it again. The problem also IMO is that logitech wouldn't be satisfied with a few thousands sales. when they sell a product, they want to sell it by millions (that's only my feeling), like the boom speakers and other products. I'm also quite happy with the current status quo, because I'm very happy with what I have and Logitech is letting us "playing with our toys". I see two big clouds with that status quo : first, I love the old logitech squeeze products, they have a very good design, wonderful ergonomics and of course terrific sound for the price. I recently bought a new (!) squeeze radio on amazon market place and would buy a touch or a transporter if I could. I didn't found similar products on the market that could work as nicely with LMS. Fortunately all my squeezebox devices are still working! Second problem is that LMS rely only on Michael H and the main plug-ins on a few developers. Some developers apparently have "left the boat", as Triode, and some doesn't give news for a moment (Erland, some others ?). If they all leave, that will really be difficult for us to stay with LMS. I think Logitech could, and maybe should, launch another product line as squeezeboxes devices, but I don't think they will, unless they change their marketing strategy, which is to sell small devices, easy to use, not too expensive, for the young. LMS 7.9.0 on Linux Mageia 5 and RPI 3 1 SB3, 2 radio, 1 touch Plugins : Trackstat, Smartmix, MusicIP, ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antoniop's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
