bhaagensen;510959 Wrote: > Sorry, but I don't think this argument holds water. It is assuming > everyone can be bothered to: buy, own, maintain, pay for, allocate space > for, have some remote interest in - a server. I doubt that is the case > for the general public - at least not to an extent where it makes sense > to rule out the option. Obviously there are several markets, or at least market segments. For my own use, I feel pretty much the same way as Pablo, and I imagine that's true of a lot of current SB users. But a lot of people balk at "having a computer on" to play music, ignoring the fact that NASs or some of the devices in the OP *are* computers.
As a glimpse of one of the other market segments, last week I went to a friend's housewarming party. A brand new, big, $2m house. And among the technological items that impressed people was a little recess in the kitchen wall where you could stick an iPod and it would play through the in-ceiling speakers. I didn't notice if they were in other rooms of the house, but they probably are. I asked my friend what brand the system was, and he said "I have no idea. Whatever the contractor installed." He and his wife are both computer savvy (though their PhDs are in economics, so they lose a few points for that...), but they just wanted an easy solution. As for the $1k-and-up market that are in the OP, I think that Logitech is choosing not to compete in this market. They'll keep selling the TP for a while, but I don't see any successor to the TP under Logitech's ownership. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74510 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
