Not everyone on the planet gets a hardon over iPhones and the apps that can be shoehorned into them. It makes more sense for Logitech to keep their SlimDevices team focused on SD products. I have trouble buying the notion that millions of people are going to go through a mental process along the lines of, hey, I have an iPhone; I wonder what neato-keen apps I can put on it; oh, look! there's this app for something called SqueezeBox, I wonder what that is?; hey, that looks like a cool app so I think I'll go buy some SqueezeBoxes so I'll have a reason to install and use this cool iPhone app. Maybe it really would make SBs fly off the shelves, but it doesn't sound like a rock-solid foundation for a business plan to me. The target market for SBs is not identical to that for iPhones, despite the fact that there will obviously be some overlap. I like the fact that Slim has focused on -music- and targeted people who are interested in music; a phone (even a glitzy one with gee-whiz gizmos) isn't what music lovers think of when they're looking for a music system. Since the SD software is open source, if there's a real market for iPhone tie-ins, somebody will develop them, and Slim will profit from it by selling hardware. But taking resources from their engineering development pool to work for Apple, when they could be improving their own products doesn't make much sense.
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