pettifoggery wrote: > If Volumio could licence the software for use by audio hardware > companies that could replace the subscriptions. Though that's only > likely to happen when / if Volumio has a library of plugins to rival or > surpass LMS. Chicken and Egg.
The business of licensing SW to HW companies is hard a shit and only bring pennies. It almost never works, unless you are opening a door to something much larger for these HW companies. Also, HW-minded companies don't understand the benefit of SW and think that SW just magically jumps on it, so why paying. I've always liked this Steve Job comment in one of the few earning calls he made > > Toni Sacconaghi - Sanford Bernstein > > Tim, maybe you want to comment, if I could push you on that Steve. So if > the market starts to move towards somewhat lower functionality > smartphones in that migration of non-smartphones to smartphones that you > talked about. If the market starts to move to dramatically lower price > points, you feel you can't make an appropriate product that is good at > those price points, you will cede share under those circumstances. Do I > hear you correctly? > > Steve Jobs > > You're looking at it wrong. You're looking at it as a hardware person in > a fragmented world. You're looking at it as a hardware manufacturer that > doesn't really know much about software, who doesn't think about an > integrated product, but assumes the software will somehow take care of > itself. And you're sitting around saying, "Well, how can we make this > cheaper? Well, we can put on a smaller screen on it and a slower > processor, and less memory." And you assume that the software will > somehow just come alive on this product that you're dreaming of, but it > won't. Because these app developers have taken advantage of the products > that came before with faster processors, with larger screens, with more > capabilities that they can take advantage of to make better apps for > customers. > > And it's a hard one because it throws you right back into the beginning > of that chicken and egg problem again to change all the assumptions on > those developers. Most of them will not follow you, most of them will > say, "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to go back and write a watered down > version of my app just because you've got this phone that you can sell > for $50 less and you're begging me to write software for it." > LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112042 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
