mherger wrote: > > But a real company can probably solve that ( or buy a solution from > you > > ) how about if another company showed up at logitechs door saying we > > want to market a squeezebox can we join the club :) it has to be some > > kind of business deal with my squeezebox com and al . There are > already > > some that do effectively sell squeezebox replacement , but they are > more > > below the radar basement nerd operations :) nothing wrong with that . > > But getting logitechs blessing to get mysqueezebox com support and > use > > the squeezebox name is another thing . > > Disclaimer: I'm just an engineer. I've got nothing to do with commercial > > decisions. Therefore this is my personal point of view: > > > Is it even possible to try ? > > You can always try, asking is cheap. But imagine you're the owner of a > massive infrastructure (many dozens of servers) to keep a dead product > running. It's only cost, no income any more. Now there's a 3rd party > who's asking you to keep that infrastructure alive to support _their_ > products. How much money would you want from them? A lot more than they > > would be willing to pay, that's for sure. Because you want to be free to > > shut down your money drain any time you want, unless somebody else is > paying for it. > > -- > > Michael
I to tend to think like that to sometimes . But the equally not soo good idea of building a "me too" dlna streamer or recieva product is still popular . What keeps me positive is that this is till the best system :) But a non techie friend of mine setup a sonos play 3 the other day striagth from the iPad app with no knowledge of it whatsover ... So a takeover of squeeze to widen the audience slightly may include more expenses than the server park . Some massive spurt of new development , the best system can be better . Mass market would expect it to adjust tags rip CD's have a music download shop etc and all streaming services . so it's very uphill to leave the niche . But why not settle for being good in this niche off music entusiast with terabytes of local files , like me . It's a big world you can be sucessfull in niches too . I'm a bit inbetween i listen to 90% my own files and expereince new stuff trough services and the ocasional science talk radio stuff . And sometimes actuall Radio . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104714 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
