bhaagensen wrote: > Oh, and several other things such that your home is left without a > music-system when your phone=you is not available for music-playback :) > > Also Im not reading you clear when you on one hand say you understand > Logitech for leaving a product one can get for free, and on the other > hand say that there *is* a market (for Sonos and such) to take > over....? >
Sure, it is not a replacement for a streamed music system - just makes it difficult to justify buying more Squeezeboxes, particularly the mobile ones like the Boom or Radio. There will always be a place for a static streamer but SB has more competition these days from Apple AirPlay and DLNA as well as Sonos. Also, if you want to pay too much money, there are plenty of "hi-fi" streamers out there. Some, like Linn, even offer multi-room sync. In that environment you can the Squeezebox market share gradually being eaten into. You also forget that in most modern homes there is more than one smartphone. My wife has one and my daughter is angling for one. My eldest son would love one but he would spend every hour of the day playing games on it. I already have to hide the iPod Touch! ModelCitizen wrote: > Smart phone and/or tablet = controller and/or player and has done for a > long time now > > Does it ever worry you that you are so far behind? :D Its my age you know, we oldies are slower on the uptake... I was on a two year phone contract and didn't really bother looking around until it was coming to an end. My wife has a 2 year old HTC Wildfire Android phone, but that obviously was not mine to play with! She is also rather less interested in the tech than me. She wanted an iPhone, because all her friends have them, but decided it was too expensive and went with the "poor man's iPhone" as she calls it. She just uses it for calls, text, e-mail and calendar duties. She didn't even possess a pair of headphones before I bought her some last week! AFAIK it has only been possible to use an Android phone as "player" since May 2011 when Bluegaspode launched his little app. But I suppose 18 months is an absolute age in technology these days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96877 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
