I still don't believe audio+video is the mass market and audio alone is not, at least in the long term they will be separate and audio will be the bigger market. I do agree that maybe a lot of new users will try the integrated solutions first before they learn they need something else.
I also believe it's too late to enter the video market, margins are already down. So what I believe SB really needs is an optimized experience for audio mass market. And I don't think this is about hifi and local database optimization, I believe it's indeed about social network integration. But not in the form of just communicating stuff to the outside and showing my facebpok wall, but it has to be integrated to the music discussions there. It needs playback capability for all the major social netwoks and plugins (especially YouTube and mySpace because that's where the music is) and it has to be easy to integrate with what other people do. A lot of my friengs communicate new music they learn about through Twitter or facebook, what I would really want is instant access to all of that on my SB. And if I discover something, I need a quick way to communicate it, and on a way that others can immediately lissen to it as well, which means as a link. THIS is the way how you get the next generation of customers to adopt the SB, not just printing logos on packages. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
