Calm down a bit folks - no point getting so heated in speculation about what a company may or may not do, nor what they should or should not do - it's all highly hypothetical and not worth getting steamed up about!
(this wasn't particularly about mlsstl - I just picked a post to reply to at random...) On a (to me at least!) slightly positive note - I picked up a set of Logitech speakers for my PC today, I got some that have optional coax inputs - and I note that all over the documentation it pushes the Squeezebox, with lines like "to use the RCA inputs ... plug your Logitech Squeezebox, DVD player, or game console into the RCA jacks". - Korny On 4 July 2012 10:29, mlsstl <[email protected]>wrote: > > Interesting how many people in this thread seem to think they have > unusual insight into what Logitech "should be" doing as respects their > product line up. > > As a profitable company that's been around for awhile, I strongly > suspect they have more than a few people who know what they're doing > when it comes to making a buck. I think the odds are pretty good that > they've done some market research and have a good idea where they are > going from here. Maybe they don't want to compete with the video > streamers with sub $100 Rokus and the like. Sometimes a company finds it > more profitable fulfilling a smaller niche than competing in a more > congested, lower priced market. > > Same thing with the video screen. Some portion of market would love a > screenless player, but what's the percentage? Would those sales justify > the design, production & distribution costs? Once again, we're pitting > our rather biased individual preferences against a company that is in > the business, has access to a lot more info, and is probably a shade > more dispassionate about the whole matter. > > Yes, there are any number of companies that I wish would bend the > specifics of their product a bit more to my liking. Sometimes a company > takes heed of customer input and sometimes they don't. It's just rather > unrealistic to think that every idea I have is going to end up a high > priority for a manufacturer. > > I'm not in the consumer electronics field, but after 35 years in the > business world I know that decisions often include quite a bit of info > that is pretty much invisible to those on the outside. Sure, sometimes > in hindsight a business may wish they'd made a different decision, but > if they are successful in their industry, the overall odds lay on their > side of the court. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com http://korny.info "We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing" - O.W. Holmes
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