JJZolx;380732 Wrote: > After looking through the product announcements, the really amazing > thing is how coherent the product line is right out of the door. Just > goes to show what can be done with sufficient capital resources. > > The iPod dock and the CD player are just a couple of interesting parts > of the system. Having the ability to distribute music directly from CD > or an iPod have been requested from Slim/Logitech forever. >
The completeness of this system does point out one "problem" with the Logitech/SlimDevices solution, namely the inability to one-stop shop. With the Cisco thing out there, you can buy everything but the router/WAP in one box, and the router/WAP comes under the Linksys brand as well. With Logitech/SlimDevices, you have to provide the computer and run the server (unless you want to be SqueezeNetwork only, but that's not the way I roll). I'd really like to see Logitech/SlimDevices put a plug and play server in a box. Maybe as simple as rebadging a RipServer, but it would enable them to hit whole new markets that they don't already have. They could easily go from that to various plug-and-play bundles. "Just plug these into your network, do a little configuration, and insert your CD's". > > There's little question that they're aiming higher than the market > Logitech is now aiming for with their own streaming products. Sonos is > the one that should be worried. Always a funny thing to see written, given that the top end product in the Logitech line is $2000, and the $300 ones are no slouches.... Eric -- kolding SqueezeBox 2 -> Rotel RSX-1056 -> Totem Acoustic Dreamcatchers SqueezeBox 3 -> Rotel RX-1052 -> Vandersteen 1B's SqueezeBox Boom SliMP3 and Squeezebox 1 -> Retired ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kolding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57371 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
