I have serious doubts about Transporter fate. Logitech is mass market
company. Yes, it sells expensive keyboards, but they are expensive
mass-market keyboards. Logitech sells nothing for truly hi end narrow
enthusiast market. I hope Transporter line won't be dropped because
it's not profitable
It could have been much worse, it could have been sony or bose and then
what?
Anyway can they produce a SB that my partner can use? Just that she
still uses an old CD player/radio if I'm not arround. Shame she doesn't
have the same problem with the volume controls.
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Keith
325xi;148977 Wrote:
I have serious doubts about Transporter fate. Logitech is mass market
company. Yes, it sells expensive keyboards, but they are expensive
mass-market keyboards. Logitech sells nothing for truly hi end narrow
enthusiast market. I hope Transporter line won't be dropped
ob_kook;148939 Wrote:
My SB2 is currently identical to the new SB3's coming out except for the
case design and the color of the display, but if they changed how the
software/firmware updates are controlled, that could change.
That would be tricky because the units are *so* identical that the
Where does all the they'll be dropping the Transporter come from?
If you consider the investment made bringing the Transporter to market
over the last months/year, and then consider that
discussions/negociations with Logitech will have been occuring at the
same time, do you not think it would
You don't consider a $500 remote control to be high end enthusiast? You consider that mass market?I think the parallels between Harmony and SD are what should guide most of our thought here. Namely:1) Harmony remotes are still considered to be very good, despite the Logitech name
2) The $500
You know, Logitech makes keyboards and mice, something they have done
for a million years...
A quick look shows that they not only make the $15 keyboards that most
of us probably use, they also make $200 keyboards and seem to have no
problem selling high end typing gear.
And while everyone and
Agreed on all points.On 10/22/06, snarlydwarf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:You know, Logitech makes keyboards and mice, something they have done
for a million years...A quick look shows that they not only make the $15 keyboards that mostof us probably use, they also make $200 keyboards and seem to
Added distribution channels will increase FLAC awareness, and hopefully
impact the number of third party devices that are FLAC friendly.
Maybe with disks getting large enough to affordably support the format,
more people will be able to hear the difference compared to lossy :-)
Also, SB3's and
Logitech is a very good company and I think the partnership will be
great for SD and their entire customer community. Better resource
availability, great product integration and development incentive, not
to mention happier SD employees from the nice raises they have
(hopefully) all received!
SD
radish;148331 Wrote:
All this for no obvious upside...I just can't imagine why they'd even
want to do any of this. So I'm not really worried about that. What I am
worried about (in the longterm, I trust Sean co as long as they're
around) is lack of worthwhile new models, and lack of
Clearly, it was the earnings. I'm sure the analysts have no idea
whether $20 million for Slim Devices is a good price or a bad price
(and in fact, in most cases acquiring companies see their stock drop on
such announcements). I did see mention that LOGI is known for making
favorable
I'm just surprised that SD sold out so soon. Okay, twenty million is a
lot and I'm sure that Sean Company are popping bottles of champagne.
Still, the Transporter is very new to market and the company is bound to
revolve over the year. In terms of branding, they might have trouble
with the
highdudgeon;148139 Wrote:
I'm just surprised that SD sold out so soon. Okay, twenty million is a
lot and I'm sure that Sean Company are popping bottles of champagne.
Still, the Transporter is very new to market and the company is bound to
revolve over the year. In terms of branding, they
adamslim;148192 Wrote:
The Squeezebox is always gone to be the one that makes money - it's
actually somewhat perverse that SD have gone from mass-market to
upmarket. One would normally expect a high-end 'proof of concept'
first, followed by a mass-market product (often better than the
Excellent post Adam!
You've put into words what I feel since this deal was anounced.
-s.
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My concern is how friendly will Logitech be to the enthusiast scene?
Will they continue to put out the SlimServer for free? Will they try
and squish the SoftSqueeze?
These are my concerns, as this is what lead me to being a fan of SD.
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amthar
amthar;148233 Wrote:
Will they continue to put out the SlimServer for free? Will they try
and squish the SoftSqueeze?
They have no control over Slimserver, it's open source and they don't
own it. Softsqueeze is also GPL, although the primary (only?) dev works
for SD (now Logitech). But if
radish;148237 Wrote:
They have no control over Slimserver, it's open source and they don't
own it. Softsqueeze is also GPL, although the primary (only?) dev works
for SD (now Logitech). But if for some reason they did stop development
of it inhouse, there's nothing stopping someone else
Sure, I was thinking about this at lunch time. They could indeed change
the slimproto implementation to lock out slimserver, but the firmware
upgrade can't be forced so those of us with existing units can just
stick with the existing firmware. Look at the Sony PSP - many people
are running old
radish;148331 Wrote:
Sure, I was thinking about this at lunch time. They could indeed change
the slimproto implementation to lock out slimserver, but the firmware
upgrade can't be forced so those of us with existing units can just
stick with the existing firmware. Look at the Sony PSP - many
adamslim;148192 Wrote:
I don't want to do SD down, but theirs is a new market, and there are
several players who will enter it when it becomes more mainstream.
They are probably making OK profits now, but they could easily collapse
in the future to a large entrant with serious resources.
Isn't Logitech Swiss? I don't think being successful is limited to the
US :) Although why there aren't more internationally successful tech
companies from the UK is a very valid question. Since the Amstrad and
Sinclair days it's all gone a little cold. Rio were UK based, and did
awesome stuff
radish;148357 Wrote:
Although why there aren't more internationally successful tech companies
from the UK is a very valid question. Since the Amstrad and Sinclair
days it's all gone a little cold. Rio were UK based, and did awesome
stuff until they went bust recently.
There are lot of
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