Julf wrote: > The whole SONOS business idea is based on tying you into a closed > system.
For the most part, all cloud services are the same. Pull you in, lock up your data, charge to access it, add services to maintain it. How many companies do you know that offer the right to leave and take your data with you? Facebook does, but its getting increasingly hard to do, but yes, they'll zip you entire history/pictures etc. How many others? This is the holy grail of the VC backed software startup. Some unique idea that can lead to huge profits by capturing the users data, either online or in proprietary file formats on your machine. I bought 3x copies of Adobe PDF creator over the years, but now can't use them, and their online service only is way, way too expensive and they don't provide any reasonable upgrade paths. There are a ton of examples like this. --------------------------- http://markcathcart.com/about Running a ReadyNAS NVX LMS Server, currently 7.9.0; Transporter(Living Room)+Duet Controller; Squeezebox Touch(Master Bedroom), (2x)Boom(Office, Patio), Radio(Guest Bedroom), Classic(garage). Also using Squeezeplay on Windows 10. Use Squeeze Ctrl app on Android. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cathcam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43414 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
