pfarrell;426794 Wrote: > > This is one of the key reasons that Dalmer-Benz bought Chrysler. Other > than the obvious easy access to Trucks/SUV and the Jeep line. > > MB cars have a ton of advanced engineering, and they needed volume to > spread the engineering cost (NRE in the buzz). If they could have > pushed > down their technology, such as yaw control, into the Chrysler cars, > the > cost would become a trivial cost of the car, with the tiny volume that > MB has, the engineering cost is tens of thousands of dollars per car. >
VERY bad example. You are right about the rationale yet they never even tried. ON PURPOSE!!! BTW, right now the volume is not that tiny anymore, they had a little more than 1/3 of Chryslers sales (#, not $) upon the merger and are at around 50% now. But for SD this is even more important: They have to attract partners like streaming services (which they are very good at right now) and 3rd party accessory companies. And they will have to stand up against an upcoming army of products supporting the rotten but simple and cheap DLNA standard (actually it's not the standard that is rotten but the support implementations, most of them). You need volume for THAT. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63775 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
