My two cents on this: Apple entering your market is never good. There are millions of iphones, ipad, and ipods that will be capable of streaming content. If they license airplay to 3rd party manufacturers, there will be hundreds of devices that they could stream to. Just look at how many ipod docks there are out there!
The starting point is a $99 apple tv to start streaming to my home theater system; typically the best audio setup in a house and located in a main area. Also, lets say i own an iphone and go to buy a new audio component, it will be logical for me to choose one with streaming from a device i own. Also remember the mass market are not audiophiles, so simple streaming from a device they already own makes sense. I also read in one of those articles that synch between multiple devices will be supported. All of that is not good for sb as we know it. It will not be priced competitvely or have the simplicity that the mass market will demand. So what do you do if you are logitech? You team up with google and google tv. I think there is a reason that you cannot buy a receiver anywhere in the U.S. I also think moving the Touch to be logitech exclusive are both signs of the direction we are heading. Logitech are focusing there resources elsewhere. Lets face it, a $300 touch as just a music streamer is no longer relative against an ipod/airplay combo where pricing will start around the same but is capable of so much more (apps,movies,ebooks, portability etc). Plus people will already be invested with their idevice. My theory is that logitech is no longer focused on squeezebox devices, but on google tv and that in the next few weeks we will hear an announcement that it will ship before the holidays. It will be the streaming device of choice. I dont think that is the death of sb or that we all will have to leave our devices behind, but that the sb ecosystem will be integrated and rolled into google tv. Im sure that google/android wants the same features as well....think what happens if all android devices becone logitech streamers! This is all just a theory and im not hating on sb. I still love my setup, but just really curious as to what the future holds. -- goody ------------------------------------------------------------------------ goody's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22405 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81670 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
