While Slim Devices probably has the best solutions overall from a technical standpoint (especially now with their true audiophile player) that they're nowhere near the top of market with sales. I'd imagine Roku, Apple (Airport Express), Linksys, etc. have the bottom end covered, and Sonos, Escient, Olive, et al have the "high end" market share. Does anyone have actual numbers on this?
At any rate, I think Slim realized hitching their wagon to a bigger company was the most effective way of increasing their market presence. If you think about it they almost had to be bought by someone--better that it's by a company who's willing to let them remain mostly autonomous as opposed to merging with one of their competitors. We'd be in real trouble then (and I assume Sean and Dean wouldn't have done that.) Slim also couldn't have grown in terms of breadth of products, new technologies (video?) and positioning without a larger company backing them. I'm reasonably confident we'll be seeing the Squeezebox Radio shortly, and perhaps other neat products (handheld but with no local storage, just WiFi?) nicketynick;147843 Wrote: > I think one has to keep in mind that we're talking about a market space > (bringing digital media to the living room) that is still in its > infancy. SD is clearly leading at this point, and from Logitech's > point of view $20M is a pretty small investment to make sure they keep > the lead on their competition (CreativeLabs, maybe, not to mention > M$oft). And once everybody has this functionality in their living > room, it sure is going to be a good thing to already have a content > distribution system (AKA subscription services) in place! Know very > many people who own a TV but don't pay for content? > Just another angle...... -- mrfantasy --Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrfantasy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
