erland;494066 Wrote: > 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.
This is spot on. The third party dev is a BIG USP that Logitech would be wise to support and encourage. It marks the product apart from all competitors and expands the functionality to areas un-thought of by anyone but the users (think about the importance of this.. the added attraction of the product it lends and the low development costs and responsibility incurred). However, all that I've seen so far leads me to believe that Logitech just want a simple no frills music server that gives them no headaches and enables them to develop and sell various cheap "state-of-the-art" (sic) hardware devices. To restate the case: Logitech don't do software (much), they do hardware. This short term, blinkered, middle-management thinking makes one concerned about the longer-term viability of the product range. I suspect that Logitech might throwing out the baby with bathwater. I'd prefer to be wrong. MC -- ModelCitizen Think the third party Squeeze plugins and applets are important? Then 'vote for bug 14194' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14194) so more can be made. Last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72308 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
