exile;207245 Wrote: > maybe some of the folks on this forum have some ideas for making the > squeezebox competitive in a mass market situation. By definition that means developing a native Windows application and/or adapting the firmware to work with existing Windows media servers. Both of these approaches are being taken by competing products. I suspect that products and software based on this direction are being worked on right now by Logitech. Native OS X and Linux server counterparts might be maintained, but they would take a back seat to Windows apps that would be used by 90% of the new customer base. This would be the exact opposite to the development philosophy now taken.
This would also mean that new products would have a substantially reduced amount of flexibility compared to Squeezebox and SlimServer. A plugin architecture might be created within this context, but I doubt that a closed application would appeal to any of the current plugin authors, so you'd be selling it all over again to a completely new audience. It would take a highly successful product in the consumer market to raise the same level of participation in plugin development that you now have with the current computer-savvy user base. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
