tin wrote: > Not oops at all. If a big corporate company pushes and pushes their > tangible products to permanently use an internet based service that they > provide, or worse, update products that never even needed such a service > (MSB didn't exist at time of purchase of my SB3). Then - unless I guess > that business goes under - they have to keep providing that service for > a reasonable amount of time. They can't just decide to turn off a bit of > the infrastructure that they made required to operate equipment people > have spent a lot of money on, they're obligated to look after it. The > premium price and status of the squeezebox stuff means I would suggest > that is some considerable number of years. Imagine if Pioneer, when they > exited the Plasma TV market, suddenly flipped a switch that made > people's TVs not work. > > Notwithstanding that Logitech seems to have scrapped squeezebox and MSB > for the replacement which as far as I can see is almost identical to the > point it's even the same hardware and software just changed a little. To > me their decision makes no sense in light of what they have replaced it > with either. > > You are perhaps right about the "exec" bit. I think they have made many > poor decisions with SB in the last few years. I hope the feeling on > here, slimdevices forum, and again the fact that UE is ABSOLUTELY THE > SAME THING persuades said exec or hopefully his/her boss that they've > made a massive cock up and revert the decision. All that is required to > give logitech the same thing as they have is a default mode of a SB to > be a simplified MSB mode only, and an option to go full SB. > > Anyway, nonetheless, we're not talking as if it's been turned off, I > understand this is just an outage. Ironically if Logitech hadn't been so > single minded about making SBs rely on MSB, perhaps more of them would > still be working during this outage. Some updates and of course a fix > asap would be appreciated. However I guess as some have alluded that the > MSB team is at least under resourced now. This again for me is not an > excuse, it is some execs fault the team has been put in this position. > > The final thing, should this and the general future of SB/MSB go badly > that I, and anyone I can persuade, won't be touching any product with > Logitech written on it with a very very long bargepole any time in the > future. There are so many passionate SB users that I expect many will do > the same, and that will cause them at least an appreciable loss of > business. > > I'll also be taking my several SBs back to the stores whence they came - > in particular the one I took delivery of last night and hasn't worked > since :(
The UE variant of the radio is very very crippled compared to the SqueezeBox experience whe are used to . They think it sells I don't . We have a bunch of treads about that to , for example no web-UI controll of playback of local files and the clincher no playback of local files without Internet conection :) that would be a huge success when uesr.com goes down with a technical problem... I expect to be using my squeezeboxes for a while longer until something else appears on the market that could work in this niche. There seems to be nothing at the moment ( Sonos has to many limitations ). However if mysb.com goes away permanently in X years or soo the system can still be used for playing my library of local files and a limited web radio function via direct url's and possibly also some third party plugins will still work like triodes spotify . Some years later I expect to find something else to use . Unless some clever antrepenour have resurected the system in some fashion :) but that is not the highest probability .and then there is replacement players for the squeezebox system ,there are software players aviable from third parties but that's not enough . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96516 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
