On reflection I'm dissappointed about all this, but to a certain extent I don't know why.
What I have always loved about the Squeezebox is that it married my interest in music and hi-fi with my love of IT. This was then made even stronger by the fact that I could read the source and understand how it worked and even tinker with my system when I felt the need. BUT....fundamentally I am not a mainstream user. Non-techy friends have been blown away by what the Squeezebox device can do, but once I told them what it cost and what was needed they were not always so keen. I think the problem here is that Slimdevices has become too successful to continue as it was. Media Streaming is clearing an up and coming market and SD are not going to be able to continue forever on ripped CDs as a source - CD is a dated format now and I'm sure the music industry would dearly love to hasten its demise. Online music and DRM is going to be the future whether we like it or not. For SD to continue to move forward they do need to appeal to the mass market - it can be done as Apple have proved. This is where a link with Logitech makes more and more sense. I suspect the future will be to embrace DRM and get down to a mass market price point. Otherwise I fail to see how Logitech can get a return on their investment. This is a real opportunity for there to be a SD device in every living room - the only shame would be that it may not be in mine....There will always be another start-up coming along that delivers what I want! It does feel like the end of an era, but to quote the late great George Harrison 'All things must pass'. -- Browny http://www.last.fm/user/BrownySV/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Browny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2295 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
