------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21033 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Could a wireless enabled iPod overtake the Squeezebox as a network music player? - Yes - I want my wireless iPod yesterday! - No - nothing will pry my Squeezebox from my cold, dead, hands! - Meh - it could cause some defection but not kill Slim entirely... ------------------------------------------------------------------------
A wireless iPod doesn't make a lot of sense - in the same manner that a portable squeezebox would have very limited usability. If it contained both internal storage (drive or flash) _and_ wireless capability, then you might have something. And if Apple came up with an "iPod" that was akin to the Squeezebox (without speakers) or a similar unit with internal amp and speakers, then yes, this would steal quite a bit of sales from the Squeezebox. No doubt more due to the huge marketing clout of Apple, and the momentum of iTunes than anything else. In any case, you're seeing more and more products from all segments of the electronics industry aimed at this market, in most cases with better focus than the Squeezebox. You have cheap consumer mp3/wma players, audiophile playback systems, and multi-room systems, most of which are better suited for their particular target audience, either because of price or features. Squeezebox has a couple things going for it right now - probably because it does all of those things fairly well. It's fairly inexpensive, it's passable at doing multi-room (for the price, anyway) and it's caught a small following in the audiphile community because of its relatively low cost and ease of being tweaked to enhance performance. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21033 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
