pippin wrote: > It's a funny discussion with different points of views on both sides of > the Atlantic, btw. > Whenever I talk to people in Europe they don't believe in cloud services > and that people will always prefer their own stuff. Some hardware makers > here even still want to include CD drives and FM receivers, even for new > projects. > > When I talk to people from the US it always sounds like owning music is > already a thing of the past, nobody does that und it's completely > irrelevant for anything new, you only need to support online streaming, > nothing else. > > I believe in none of these scenarios. Owning and collecting music is > here to stay, the limitations of online streaming are far too severe. > I'm a Spotify user for 4 years or so now and around 1/3rd of my > collected catalog is no longer available. And that's in addition to the > 50% of my physical collection they never had. > > But I also don't believe that the model of copying your music onto your > iPod and carrying it around all the time will persist, plus for > occasional listening, music discovery and actual distribution I do > believe it will move completely online. It's just that you will then > want to keep what you really care about. > > So we need to support both and bridge the two worlds to make all of this > accessible and bring you back to a point, where you just focus on > listening to music, whoever it comes from. > That's our idea behind ickStream.
Perfect. I agree with all the above! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
