On 29 June 2012 12:36, toby10 <toby10.5ex...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > The mass market helps keep your Touch at a reasonable price. > Take away it's > mass market appeal and your very limited market for > such a device would quadruple the price for the same hardware.
You're missing the point I was trying to make. IMHO the Touch *doesn't have* that much mass market appeal to begin with (the Radio might). If it did it wouldn't be an also-ran in a market that Squeezeboxes created. By now you've lost the mass market at "dedicated device for music streaming". After all, there's DLNA and AirPlay. On the high(er) end there's Sonos and various boxes by traditional hi-fi outfits, whose potential customers wouldn't even consider anything by "crappy computer speakers" Logitech. The Touch was a bid to enter the mass market, true, with its touch screen, color, embedded server, USB / SD connectivity - and maybe it's cheaper because of that. But I'd much rather have a dumb SB2/3 with a modern DAC, multi-channel support, maybe a bigger VFD. Can't be that much more expensive. The Squeezeboxes badly need a fresh model line up with two or three well-defined niches, a new brand and a marketing campaign, but I think we all know that. Don't get me wrong, I'm still getting a Touch - it is still the best Squeezebox currently available, even if it doesn't fit my needs very well. _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
