pippin wrote: > Forget it. Logitech is not a contract developer. I don't know their > specific requirements but other, similar companies have metrics on how > much revenue (sales. In hardware) you have to generate per engineering > man year spent. > Typical values are between 4 and 30 (sic!) million $ of revenue per > engineering man year. What this means is: they don't just sell you > engineering, they want a complete project and that needs to be justified > in terms of HW sales.
It mainly varies depending on gross margin of the impacted product (and consumer electronic is not a happy place for that) and also the size of the team that would be involved as the opportunity cost of "not doing something else" matters a lot. Having said that, I mentionned this because also sometimes, if the amount of work is small enough, then as long as you cover your cost, you're happy with the positive image it brings to your brand. I have no idea of the size of the work required for that API upgrade. If it is large (like measured in men*years vs men-weeks) then I agree, 0 chance for a discontinued product family. LMS 7.7.2 - 5 radio, 3 Boom, 4 Duet, 1 Touch, 1 SB2. Sonos 2xPLAY:1, PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBMC, Foobar2000, XBoxOne (sort of) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104287 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
