jmpage2;493980 Wrote: > I have actually been surprised myself that Logitech hasn't simply made > an offer to buy the iPeng product line, rebadge them as Logitech branded > applications and offer them for free to drive more sales of the hardware > they make money on. > > What would be the harm in them offering him $250K for his sweet sweet > application if he also agrees to go on retainer to continue supporting > it for the next few years? > Once again, if they use these $250K to spend some resources to encourage and offer better support for third party development I bet they would be able to get a lot more third party add-ons besides just the iPeng app.
I understand that some people seems to think that everything will be better if it's owned by Logitech but I personally really don't think this is the case. I believe Logitech would get more advantages of supporting third party development than actually owning the third party development. One reason that we have some very creative solutions made by third party developers today is that they aren't restricted by the Logitech management and strategy in the same way as all in-house development are. Third party developers can create solutions that are a bit outside the box, while all in-house development has to follow the main strategy. -- 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=72308 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
