pablolie;426915 Wrote: > > without market share numbers it is hard to tell whether the current > product portfolio needs any updating or changing. > If they like to move into the mass market route they need to change because all the products are way too geeky and technical today to fit in this market section.
Moving into the mass market might be the only way for the product suite to survive but it might also completely change what's important. Making it more user friendly for non technical users is a win for everyone but the mass market might also mean focusing on cheaper versions of the product instead of focusing on versions with higher sound quality. After all, most mass market users listen to MP3 (not lossless formats) and doesn't care that much about sound quality as long as it's good enough. However, Logitech hasn't "destroyed" other companies they have purchased, look at the Harmony remote section which as far as I know still creates new high end remote controls. It will also be interesting to see how all this will affect this community, moving into mass market means getting more commercial which might result in that there isn't time to listen and work together with the community as much as we have seen earlier. I've personally seen some changes in this direction already during the last three years I've been around. This might not be a bad thing for the products but the development process will probably be pretty different from what we have seen earlier. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63775 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
