On 1 July 2012 00:22, garym <garym.5ez...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > All products are eventually extinct. My 1979 apple II works fine. I don't know about you, but I'd have no problem replacing an Apple II. I really wouldn't know what to replace my Squeezeboxes with, though. The HTPC could do it, of course, but compared to the SBs it's flakey and computer-y.
On 1 July 2012 07:09, jean2 <jean2.5f0...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > I've been using the Touch with a USB drive for the last two years, and > I've just bought one for my parents that will run similarly. I can tell > you that over two years, there have been consistent improvements > to the stand-alone support, both in speed and reliability, That's great, but it still isn't "there", it seems. Still, at least there's *some* development, so yay! > whereas many other bugs have not been addressed. See, and that's not so great, at least not for people like me who don't use their SBs stand-alone at all. It'd be nice if they threw the core audience / loyal fan base a bone once in a while. (Triode doesn't count ^^) > In the consumer market pricing is dictated by volume more than > anything else, to be able to sell at $300, they need significant > volume. Without all those various those features increasing volume, > we would be most likely paying Transporter price for the Touch. I really don't think that's true. The original Slim Devices outfit made a profit, too, even at the comparatively tiny scale they were operating at, yet the Squeezeboxes weren't more expensive. (Ok, I haven't factored in inflation, so maybe a little.) Seems to me that all volume dictates is Logitech's profit margin. IIRC the Transporter could have profitably been sold at <$1k but they upped the price to match the audiophile market's expectations ^^. _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
