DaveWr;354749 Wrote: > You could still port the application. So Apple won't let you fit LUA. > LUA was your choice. Others appear to be creating native apps, so > could you. > Sure they can, but it also has to make sense from a business point of view.
You will have to have to remember that Logitech earns money on the Controller and a free iPhone application from Logitech would be very confusing, since it would compete with the Controller which they earn money on. Of course they could make an iPhone application which they charge for, but they would have to charge enough for it to earn back the costs of developing the application plus the costs of decreased Controller sells. If they can't run the current code without a major rewrite, the developing costs are going to be higher. An iPhone application might of course also make the Squeezebox products more attractive, so they might sell more squeezebox'es. But this will happen anyway, because there are already third party applications for iPhone towards SqueezeCenter under development. So the only situation where it makes sense to me for Logitech to do an iPhone application is if it would be really simple and they could use most of the existig Squeezeplay code. However, as Dean suggest, simply porting Squeezeplay to iPhone without doing major modifications to the user interface wouldn't be a good idea. It would never be able to compete with the third party offerings which have been designed specifically for the iPhone. So to sum it up, my guess is that Logitech is going to do as they have always done earlier related to the Squeezebox products. They focus their developers on the software close to their hardware and work together with the community to make it possible for third party developers to enhance the experience with extra features and support for third party hardware, for example an iPhone application for the Squeezebox products. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54345 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
