cliveb wrote: > Sonos was around long before Logitech bought Slim Devices. The two > product lines were always at opposite ends of the market. Drawing an > analogy with HiFi, Sonos appealed to the sort of person who would buy an > integrated B&O system, whereas the Squeezebox system appealed to the > sort of person who would mix & match components, and probably even mount > & align the pickup cartridge on their turntable. > > It seems to me that at the time, Logitech saw that there might be money > to be made in the streaming market, and Slim Devices was a company in > that field that could be bought for what was (to Logitech) loose change. > It was a gamble worth taking and wouldn't cost much if it failed to pay > off. > > What's also clear is that Logitech failed to do their homework and never > really understood the vision behind the Squeezebox ecosystem. Their daft > attempt to squeeze (excuse the pun) a stripped down server into the > Touch is evidence they really were barking up the wrong tree. What they > should have done is build and sell an LMS server as a hardware > appliance. They could probably have hired the guys at Vortexbox to do > that for them.
Perhaps I should not have referred to Sonos as high end. My point was that Sonos had started to become accepted in the consumer electronics field just as Logitech pulled out. Sonos is just as flawed as SB arguably more so. For example when BBC pulled the plug Sonos needed firmware updates whereas we had Beeb back on line with hardly any delay. At the same time people were buying AVRs. Had Logitech licensed the workings to some AVR manufacturers they would have had a market for years. Imagine an AVR that detects network shares via SMB but that magically adds them to a running LMS on the AVR itself with built in player. A nice now playing on the TV with hifi sound. None of that Dlna nonsense. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk *Pi3 with piCoreplayer music on QNAP TS419p via NFS* iThingys/iPeng/Tablets/Jogglers *Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 - > Celestion Ditton F20s *Office* - Pi -> Sony TA FE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN 755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - SB Touch -> Topping TP21 -> AKG Headphones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
