mortslim wrote: > "Music access, not ownership, is the future"
I dont know. Id rather pay the $120 every year to buy songs off iTune rather than waste them on some music rental services. I have so many monthly payments that, despite my love for music, I have not signed up for any music rental services. Music accesses are definitely changing. Consumers have more choices now than they ever did before. But I dont believe the vast majority will pay a monthly fee to listen to music. I do however believe a far more majority will pay for video services. My guess is the original Slim devices people, those who had vision and roadmaps of where they want the devices to go, are long gone. Logitech just doesnt quite know what to do with the product besides coming out with incremental products/fixes/changes. The way the product has evolved over the last few years is consistent with someones earlier comment about 3 different generations of management for this at Logitech. No one in charge has a good vision or bold enough to make big changes. This is different from Sonos. For Sonos, its their main product. Either they make it, or they die. So they put much more effort into it than Logitech (advertising, R&D, etc..). The survival of Logitech does not depend on SB, the survival of Sonos depends on their products. As for specifics, there are quite a few things Logitech couldve done to improve the SB experience, in no particular order: - Replace Perl in SBS with Java or something less heavy. Perl is picked because it allowed Slim devices to originally bring the product to market fast, but it has far out lived its usefulness. Something more lightweight and efficient will enable better product development in the future and allow more efficient use of resources when SBS is run on less capable hardware. Basically a SBS re-write focusing on speed/feature/efficiency. - Improve music library management. When you have lots of music, how do you organize them? You can label them for example, my music, wife's music, baby music, with ratings, smart playlist, etc. Something that will enable more intelligent music playback that will impress the user. Yes, I can do some of it with addons, and I can manually create playlists. But what I really want is some integrated solution. Dont make the mistake of Palm which provided a basic OS and hopes 3rd party software vendors will fill all the holes. You need to make improvements to the products itself like Apple does. - Switch to a common platform such as Android (heck, is there anything else?). Provide video features. The first thing my brother in law asked me when I gave him a SB Touch is, can I hook this up to my TV and watch Netflix? ;) Can I see the playlist on the TV, etc.. Honestly, I think Logitech is the wrong home for SB. Google might be a better choice. Id love to see a combo device of Squeezebox and SageTV. The SageTV server is a much better server and it shouldn't be that hard to add SBS features to it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wildgoose's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23501 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603
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