------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Is third party plugins/applets important for your Squeezebox purchases ? - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless support for third party development is prioritized - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless the third party plugins I rely on is supported - I use third party plugins but I would still consider buying more Squeezebox products without them - I don't use third party plugins so they aren't important to my Squeezebox purchases ------------------------------------------------------------------------
After sleeping and having some time to think this through I really want to clarify something. There are people in this thread that posts things that indicates that Logitech has already decided to ban third party developers or that they are abandoning the community. Please! I'm 99% sure no such decision has been taken, if that was the case there is no way the developers would be as positive as they are in both official posts and private messages. The intention of the thread was ONLY to create a representative poll result that makes it easy for the Logitech management to understand how important third party plugins/applets is to members of this community. We need a representative poll result, so if you haven't voted please do, but I'd like to beg to everyone that we try to not draw any premature conclusions based on anything said in this thread and other places in the forum. If you think it's fun spreading rumors and don't want to stop doing it for Logitech, please at least stop for me. I've personally only seen a tendency that other things are prioritized in front of third party development and I've recently felt that it's important to try make this tendency visible to Logitech, it's not always easy to realize things when you are sitting in the middle of it. Still, at the moment it's just a tendency, it has already affected the activity among some of the third party developers but there is still time for Logitech to do something to fix it. If they decide to not do anything, I'm personally convinced we will end up with a situation with a lot less third party development, but we are not there yet, there is still time to fix it. I'd like to beg to everyone that we try to not add more premature conclusions and rumors neither in this thread nor in other threads in the forum. Really, the best thing you can do if you want to make sure Logitech management understands how important third party plugins/applets are, is to vote on this poll and they should be able to get it from the poll result. I think there is a risk we will make the developers (which I know are on our side) more frustrating by spreading rumors or making premature conclusions based on unreliable or too brief information. We really don't want to remove the spirt from the guys fighting on our side, do we ? As a beta tester of the Radio and Touch I can honestly say that I haven't been this excited regarding any Logitech hardware so far. Sure, there is still some bugs to fix in the software, but both these devices really have a huge potential to be something great, especially related to third party development. So assuming Logitech management understands the potential of third party plugins/applets we should have a bright future in front of us. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
