shaboyi;687235 Wrote: > > nevertheless, given Airplay's momentum, I think the SB Touch doubling > as an Airplay receiver has enormous appeal and would be a great > selling point for it. > While I agree with you, I guess it's also a question of price. Would you be willing to pay $100 extra for a Touch with AirPlay support compared to the current Touch price ? Or is it only of interest if it's cheaper to get a Touch(with AirPlay) compared to get a AppleTV+Touch(without AirPlay) as separate devices ?
I'm asking because adding AirPlay to the Touch would probably mean that Logitech have to include some extra chips in the device plus that they have to pay a license fees to Apple, so it's likely going to increase the price a bit. $100 was just an example, might be less or more, not sure how high the license fees are. AirPlay is interesting and it is cool, but I wonder how useful it really is for music listening. Feels like the main interest would be for people who don't have enough input in their receiver/amplifier to connect both a AppleTV and a Touch. Because the likely usage is that you want to play music not available in the Squeezebox universe, for example music stored locally on the iPhone/iPad, and to access this you would use a different app than you usually do so it's not going to be a completely integrated experience anyway. So maybe just getting a AppleTV or receiver with built-in AirPlay support would be good enough, I can't imagine myself using AirPlay for my own main music listening as that will be handled a lot better through SBS/LMS and one of the iOS apps for remote control. Of course, if Logitech would somehow just add AirPlay support to the current Touch device without charging extra for it, I guess it would be a good solution for current Touch owners as they don't need to get any extra hardware. However, I don't think this is a likely scenario because Logitech have to earn money on it to be able to cover the license fees to Apple. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets (both free and commercial)' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'consider purchasing some plugins' (http://license.isaksson.info)) Interested in music discovery ? See 'Social Music Discovery (SMD)' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=656713) project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93207 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss