squishy wrote: > Maybe I've missed the point, and Logitech have realised that we are all > soon to be slaves to the cloud, no need for local libraries at all. And > every electronics manufacturer with a soldering iron is starting to > offer a route to these online sources via smart apps etc. If so, then > the UE radio does make sense as an offering. > > For me, the transition from local to cloud doesn't seem imminent, but I > guess the existing Squeezebox products will cater for my needs for the > next couple of years at least."Slaves to the cloud"? Far from it.
You only have to look at the "installed base" of local music out there that people have paid for on CD and downloaded from online stores, not to mention copied music. This is the only reason apple got anywhere with the Ipod. It was the music already out there and owned that people played. The sheer mass of that music - available free - is something that would take eons for cloud music to reach. Plus most people even in Western rich countries, have ADSL connections, ie dog turtle upload speed, so good luck getting all that local music uploaded in a cloud. I'd serve the people out there laready with music at home, instead of this marginal cloud business, of which Apple will shortly eat up most of the hardware sales anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Osamede's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11753 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
