sorry guys, except for sean and the inner circle that benefit from the $20m this is extremly bad news.
I understand that the sd management prefered to take the money instead of taking the risk of the next innovation step on their own bill. since the really great idea of a slimp3 years ago the innovation has not been at a noticeable high level (bigger display, wireless, new form factor, two of the known displays in a high-end variant, bundling with storage, better remote, ... all very obvious low risk low effort things... but nothing like a new product idea) I dont buy the statements about synergy for a second. Come on, an acqisition by sony or one of the big names in the audio or video consumer electronics would bring a boost for the sd product line, but logitech... what a laugh! But in the end - when sd really has no more ideas what products to invent - it is very straight forward to sell the bunch and to try someting new. So I hope that the talents in sd do try something new after the waiting time for the full payout has been passed. by the way, in the past i always looked at the bugs in the software with an "ok it is open source, the guys try hard and it is a small to be loved company" attitude. From now on i will measure the software quality with what i do expect from major companies. It will be interesting to see, if logitech is willing to take full responsibility for their new product which is based on software that they do not own, dont understand and even the sd dev team just partly controls! I guess that the tonality in this forum will change a lot in short time! -- docbee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ docbee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=26 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
