Reading this thread has me convinced that Squeezeboxes as audio source components have a limited future. Logitech will continue to sell Boom and Radio all-in-one table top players, but you have to wonder whether players like the Touch and Duet can survive for more than a couple more years.
Last night I was talking to a friend who just bought a Blu-Ray player that not only streams Netflix and Blockbuster and YouTube video, but also does Pandora. I just read that a Sony Blu-Ray player plays Slacker. We've seen Logitech all but bet the future of Squeezebox on support for music services such as these, while those same music services are now being bundled into A/V components that cost less and do more than a Squeezebox. Logitech must be aware of the same thing. With each passing day there's less and less to distinguish Squeezebox from other products. The readers of this forum could list dozens of reasons why the Squeezebox is better: audio quality, platform independence, extensibility, support for many audio file formats, and on and on, but little of that is marketable to the masses. Meanwhile, what is (or was) marketable is becoming increasingly commoditized. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 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
