toby10 wrote: > For SlimDevices it was the perfect time to sell. Taking into account > Logitechs business model it was the wrong time for Logitech to buy. Logitech were, and always would have been, the wrong company to buy Slim Devices. Their core businesses were just miles apart.
The Squeezebox system was never going to become successful in the mass-market. Its topology required a certain level of insight on the user's part. IMHO the best way for it to have survived and grown would have been to licence the technology to established audio manufacturers such as Sony, Yamaha, Marantz, Cambridge, Meridian, Linn, McIntosh and the like. The cachet of those names would have boosted its standing. Slim Devices could have become a supplier of effectively OEM modules to be incorporated into devices such as preamps and optical disc players. (No doubt the greedier vendors such as Naim would have just bunged the SD module in a box on its own and flogged it as yet another source component at 100x the price of the module, but it would still have the desired effect of legitimizing the technology). There was a brief window of opportunity about a decade back where SlimProto could have become the defacto streaming mechanism around the industry, but it would have taken a heck of a lot of work. Can't blame Sean, Dean and the gang for taking the cash when it was on offer, even though they probably knew it was being taken on by the wrong company. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107821
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