sd2100;243360 Wrote: > I totally forgot the usual suspects. Ipod and Tivoli Audio. Greate > products (I believe they are market leaders in theire business area) > and the products they sell all comes in a greate variety of colours. > But, if SD wants to loose the battle, there isn't really much to do. > Sad but true.
How in the world could anyone think that a retail powerhouse like Logitech is going to let Squeezebox fade away? They just spent half a Billion dollars. New products are going to be coming. New looks are going to be coming. But first, as with any acquisition, the process has to be streamlined and merged with the new parent company. Logitech is already putting its retail distribution network behind the Squeezebox. My local Frys Electronic store has 4 on the shelf for $299.99 in the computer department. The biggest problem that I see for them is who is going to sell it. The Transporter is easy, HiFi Shops. The SB3 is a different animal in the big box store world. Does it belong in the computer department, the audio department, the video department, over in the separate section for MP3 players? On to color and style, good thing my better half never saw a Rhapsody in Blue or Purple Haze SB2. I would have one of each color in every room of the house. Hey maybe she should have seen it now that I think about that! Anyway, Slim Devices has already tried the color/style thing and I am sure the results were pasted on to Logitech. What is at issue is whether it was to soon for that without enough word of mouth or market share. Now lets look at the white SB3. It must not have been selling or they would not have stopped making them and reduced the price on them to get them out of inventory. With the price gap to Sonos, Logitechs manufacturing and distribution (wait until it hits Best Buy), and the SB3s market share growing, there is a long and diverse future for Squeezebox. -- iPhone iPhone Last.FM http://www.lastfm.com/user/mePhone Media Room: Transporter, Vandersteen Quatro Signature, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center Channel, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco 710, RAM Oppo DV970HD, VeraStarr 6.4SE Living Room: Squeezebox 3, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold Bedroom: Squeezebox 3, Thiel 2.3, NAD C370 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40309
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