amcluesent;668624 Wrote:
> I can't think of a single instance when the Logitech bean-counters have
> done the right thing for the Squeezebox community
>
I can think of several things:
1. They saved the Squeezebox product by purchasing Slim Devices and
provided the economical strength needed to be able to develop and
release Touch and Radio.
2. They hired a number of third party developers within the community
3. They put the Squeezebox on the shelf on my local electronics store
4. They have signed deals with a number of streaming services and
provided access to them through mysqueezebox.com
5. They continued to take the costs to keep running this forum and the
related wiki
6. They released the two Squeezebox models with best potential so far
(Touch and Radio)
I could of course also make a list of what they have done wrong and
that list would probably have been longer, but saying that they haven't
done anything right isn't fair to them.
Of course, they did some of the above things thanks to the employees
originating from the community or Slim Devices and also thanks to
Sean/Dean who managed the Logitech unit responsible for Squeezeboxes
during the first 1-2 years after the purchase, most of them no longer
working for Logitech, but still, it was done while the Squeezebox
products were owned by Logitech.
It's easy to assume the world would have been a lot better if Logitech
never acquired Slim Devices, but it's important to realize that we
really don't know what would have happened if they didn't, Squeezeboxes
might not have been possible to buy at all today if it weren't for
Logitech. I'm pretty sure one of the main reasons why Slim Devices was
sold was because they couldn't produce enough profits without being
able to reach the masses and to accomplish this I could think of a lot
worse choices than Logitech, at least from a community perspective.
Another important reason was probably that they needed the economical
strength to be able to invest in product development to keep up with
the competition, this worked great within Logitech during the first
years, not so great during the last 2-3 years.
--
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