Even if SD goes away, your Transporter will do what it has always done, minus Squeezenetwork possibly. You won't get new SS/SC versions, but presumably their current functionality satisfies you or you wouldn't have bought one. I guess you'd have to worry about eventual hardware failure and inability to buy a new one to replace it, but otherwise it seems like it would be a sound investment whether or not SD continues to exist.
On Dec 30, 2007 6:17 PM, thomsens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The simple answer on price is that they are selling enough at the > current price to keep it there. Just because they can lower it doesn't > mean they should. I'm sure there will be a market for standalone music > players for years to come, but eventually there will be so many options > (some of them good), that SD will have to have made some smart moves. > That would most likely include new products as well as lower price > points. Given they just gained access to Logitech's distribution > channel, they have a window of ability to greatly increase exposure of > the product...possibly without having to address the price. As soon as > this new sales channel becomes expected, something new has to happen. > In the tech field, it's common to "eat your young" before someone else > does. Hopefully for those of us who have invested (particularly the TP > owners), SD stays ahead of the field with hw and sw innovations that > help them remain relevant. Otherwise we could have bricks on our > hands. I always thought that if I got 3 years out of the TP, I'd feel > I got enough (not really, but how else could I justify buying a product > with the risk that it just go away because the small company fails). I > was equally concerned with the Logitech thing because they make high > volume products that are a totally different market than the TP. They > could have killed it immediately. So far, it looks like luck has been > on our side, though. The product is getting better and there appears > to be no fear of the product going away. > > > -- > thomsens > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > thomsens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1352 > > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41476 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
