> Throwing out the Slim Devices way of doing business is not part of the > plan. I have been in meetings at Logitech now where we discuss products > that have been flops (or worse, are in the process of flopping). I don't > want to insult my new coworkers, but many of these flops are due to very > strange thinking from a Slim Devices point of view. You can spend a lot > of time doing market research and interface design and writing > specifications and developing hardware and software, release it, fix > some bugs, and start the whole cycle over again... > > Or you can make it powerful enough and flexible enough and open enough > that the *customers* can *turn it into* the product that *they want to > use*. Naturally there still has to be support and direction on the Slim > Devices side, but there are definitely real business benefits to the > Open Source approach.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I think that going open source was brilliant move by Slimdevices. But a counter-example would be Apple. The iPod is hugely popular, but its barely customizable, compared to the Squeezebox. -- Nostromo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32904 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
