philippe_44 wrote: > 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.
The problem here is: if this was just a little bit of engineering work Michael would have long done it like he does e.g. for Spotify. Thus us not just changing to a different API, this likely means operational changes in MySB and/or firmware updates on the SBs. Non-trivial ones. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 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
