Inexplicably, Logitech discontinued the Touch.
The Touch did everything the Transporter did, with a full-color display, at one-eighth the price! As I wrote in my review, "physical discs seem so 20th century!" After Wes Phillips reviewed the Squeezebox's big brother, the Transporter, in February 2007, I bought the review sample and lived happily ever after in the world of bits rather than atoms—at least until the summer of 2010, when Slim Devices' new owner, Logitech, brought out the Squeezebox Touch. Having audio files on a server and being able to play them through my high-end rig via the Squeezebox's S/PDIF output liberated my music from the tyranny of a physical medium.
I bought a Slim Devices Squeezebox network player in the spring of 2006 and my life changed.