Mnyb wrote: > > *Privacy ,all your musical habits is exposed to the uesr.com server , no > statement exactly how(if) this data is harvested or used . > They have a privacy policy, it's as clear as the ones I've seen from other companies, so the statement what they collect and what they use it for is pretty clear to me: http://uesmartradio.com/public/privacy
But I agree that the UE Smart Radio gets more private information and I'm not sure you have any option to select to not allow them to collect it. Information that's sent to the usmartradio.com service which they don't collect is not a big issue, the issue is the information they collect and use. Of course, if we ever want smart playlists, the new ussmartradio.com now have the possibility to store playback history and in similar way as Apple do with their Genius solution offer smart mixes/playlists based on what you and other people in your region or with similar taste listens to. I'm pretty sure this won't happen because it requires a bigger software development effort than I think Logitech is able to handle, but the possibility is there, so this doesn't have to be all bad. Mnyb wrote: > > *Planned obsolescence on a new level , they can kill your product > remotely be closing the service . Ye olde squeezebox works locally until > the hardware fails . this product dies when Logitech says so . > Also means that it will be a lot harder for them to shut it down and it needs to have better reliability than mysqueezebox.com, so this can also be an advantage depending how you look at it. mysqueezebox.com can be shutdown because you can still use your Squeezebox for local music and they can argue that they shut it down because it's no longer compatible with the streaming services it integrates due to the streaming services making changes in their API's. They would of course still have a hard time doing it while there are devices within warranty period, but they could probably do it when the warranty has expired and be able to defend it. uesmartradio.com would be a lot harder to shutdown because it would make it impossible to use the device at all, they could of course just make sure to distribute new firmware that doesn't depend on uesmartradio.com first and then shut it down, but it would be harder for them to defend. They have a clause in the terms and condition which allows them to shutdown streaming services and file format support but as far as I can see they don't have anything similar that allows them to discontinue support for local playback. http://uesmartradio.com/public/eula ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
