We're talking about a business here, not a charity. As such, it has a business model which works on market forces, regional sales strategies and suchlike. The two major driving forces of a competitive business are, in no particular order, shareholders and the balance sheet. That's it.
We'd all like to think that the customers and the technology come first, but that ain't so. It's not run from Sean's garage anymore, and Sean's dog gave up soldering Slimp3's long ago. Compared to a few years ago, the hardware has improved, the software has improved beyond recognition and it sounds like the support system and warranties have improved too. I don't see how that's a step backwards. > How much does a Sonos system cost? Price that and get back to us We all quickly guessed that the Duet was being pitched against Sonos - and many (me included, and a load of folks on the Sonos forums too) are pretty excited about that. But now it's on the forum in black-and-white, and someone suggests we might make a direct price comparison, why cry foul? > all we can do is vote with our wallets and never buy another Logitech > device Well, good luck with that. I'm not sure it'd be the right strategy for me. -- mflint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43128 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss