I agree with your general points Snarly, and as Toby notes - my concern is that, at a minimum, there should be more transparency in marketing and communication with the rest of the world that all the purported services are not available.
Pandora was genuinely contrite in informing me that they could not provide their service to non-US ISPs. Unless they've had the same experience, I don't believe most SB customers in Canada, Sweden or elsewhere would be aware of the (severe) limitation in the potential of this otherwise wonderful product. The rest of the world, or non-US customers, as you put it, is more than trivial. Squeezebox is marketing to a global, ditial world, but this sort of experience suggests a rather more parochial approach. toby10;258471 Wrote: > Hey Snarly. :) I completely agree with you. This is not SD's fault, > nor should SD start offering (or allowing) illegal streaming or ISP > spoofing. That is just asking for big time legal troubles as well as > negatively impacting future contractual issues when negotiating with > potential content providers. > > But, where I would agree with these non-US customers is in the area of > fair notice. i.e. "Some content providers may discontinue service, > without notice, at anytime in the future" type of thing. I'm sure it's > posted somewhere within SD's web page but it seems it should be a bit > more prominently displayed. > > I know it's not good marketing strategy to emphasize any potential > negatives or downsides to a product, but in light of current events in > the industry, it only seems fair. > > Note: I don't even use the likes of Pandora or Rhapsody, I'm just > barely technically competent enough to figure out SqueezeNetwork! :) -- Evan05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan05's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15017 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41626 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
