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Is there scope for a Rockbox app to on people's smartphones, tablets etc given that non of the available player apps hold a candle to it?
There are 2 things which are killing rockbox:1) smartphones as the way people listen music nowadays.2) smartphones as suckers of development force.Creating open hardware DAP is simply not a viable option. While it is quite easy to create electronic part of the DAP from on-the-shelf components, mechanical part is really huge investment (not taken into account effort to port rockbox to new platform). Please read how divergent are expectation for new DAP in AGPtek thread.
Hi,I think you missed a very (maybe the most) important point in wodz's post. If you read this post:http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,51071.0.htmland observe the current trend, you will see that basically:the number of people that want something that is not a smartphone is smalleach of these people seems to want a different DAP
I think the photography world is a good parallel, as it has a similar set of hardware chain challenges (e.g,. post-processing and printing quality are like DAC, amp and speaker quality).
"More expensive cameras appear to be bucking this trend, however. The research firm noted that unit shipments and revenue for detachable lens cameras have each grown by better than 10 percent year-over-year, with such cameras boasting an average price tag of $863. Meanwhile, higher-end point-and-shoots, defined as having optical zooms of 10x or greater, had grown by 16 percent in terms of units shipped and by 10 percent in terms of revenue through November. Such products carried an average price of $257, NPD said."
Except for...Quote from: ethanay on November 06, 2016, 05:39:17 PM"More expensive cameras appear to be bucking this trend, however. The research firm noted that unit shipments and revenue for detachable lens cameras have each grown by better than 10 percent year-over-year, with such cameras boasting an average price tag of $863. Meanwhile, higher-end point-and-shoots, defined as having optical zooms of 10x or greater, had grown by 16 percent in terms of units shipped and by 10 percent in terms of revenue through November. Such products carried an average price of $257, NPD said."Which is my main point. Only low-end consumer point and shoot cameras are in a freefall.
"Canon India saw its DSLR sales increase 26% in the first half of 2016.
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