pz1 wrote: > > But in a decent society one might expect that such devices will be > functional for a period of 5-10 years. > 10 years is a very long time, my Squeezebox Classic is now 6.5 years and still working excellently and there is no indication that Logitech plans to break it anytime soon. The Squeezebox Classic is older than most other music related equipment I have in my home, I think it's only the Sherwood amplifier that's a little bit older.
Just because Logitech stops selling Squeezeboxes doesn't mean that existing Squeezeboxes will stop working, people from Logitech has already indicated that they plan to keep mysqueezebox.com running, they will probably shut it down eventually but it's unlikely to happen in the near future IMHO. pz1 wrote: > > That being said I am very grateful to Logitech who made me extra aware > of the dangers of buying in to cloud services. > If you with cloud service mean internet radio or online streaming services I can agree that it might be dangerous, if you mean mysqueezebox.com I disagree. If the software isn't maintained it doesn't matter if it runs on the device, on one of your computers or on a central computer managed by Logitech, you have the same problem in all cases, if the software isn't updated with changes made by the content source (radio station, streaming service) it doesn't matter where it's installed, it won't work in any of the cases. I would even go as far as saying that it's more likely that something that breaks on a central cloud server will be fixed quickly than if it's something installed on a device/computer in your home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
