Antoniop wrote: > 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.
Exactly. Those and numerous other reasons are why it is a dead product. *WE* all love them and *WE* get/use the SB advantages. But the mass market could care less, and for very understandable reasons. In a world of streaming compressed music on a mobile device listened to via tiny ear buds or tiny BT speakers, the SB experience is irrelevant to the mass majority. The niche market for anything even remotely close to SB is saturated with big name players (Sonos & Bose). The tweakers will settle for PICore/MicroPC as SB player replacements. But would/could Logitech even sell or license the technology is a silly question that has been raked over the coals to the point of obsurdity. It simply won't happen if they would, and would not happen if they could. It's dead baby..... dead. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
