My immediate thoughts are to the purchase of Harmony by Logitech a while ago. When I bought my first Harmony remote they were a small company making innovative products which worked really well but which could have used better industrial design, packaging and marketing. They even had a kind of open-source aspect in that the DB of IR codes were user submitted. I was pretty bummed when I heard they were bought by Logitech, but the net outcome has been fairly positive. The products look a _lot_ slicker, work generally just as well as before, and they're a lot easier to get hold of now. I would say support has gone downhill, and I too dislike any Logitech-supplied software I've ever used (SetPoint - ugh!), but I'm still buying the remotes :)
IMHO Slim don't need help in the design department, but having Logitech's marketing group behind them won't hurt. I am a little concerned about support and general QC (my Harmony 880 STILL won't charge properly because of a faulty cradle, and support are pretty horrible to deal with) but we'll see. My major concern is that the desire for people to pitch in and help with the software will dry up as Logitech can surely afford to hire as many devs as they need and everyone knows it. Slimserver wouldn't be what it is now if it were a purely in-house product. But again, if Logitech can find some way of keeping the small club feeling whilst expanding the user base 10x, then maybe it'll all be OK. I can say one thing though - any fancy schmancy remote they make better work with my Transporter! -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
