sander wrote: > > How much did Logitech pay for Slim Devices? > The press release is here: http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/172/2763 Which says: "$20 million in cash plus a possible performance-based payment, tied to reaching certain future revenue targets."
sander wrote: > > Could Slim Devices have manufactured anything beyond the SB3 and > Transporter? Did they really need Logitech's money to make the other > form factors? > Hard to say since none of us know how bad the economics were, but my very personal suspicion is that they had a need for money and realized it wasn't possible for them to grow to the world wide market without a partner like Logitech, so it's unlikely that you would have found a Squeezebox in your local store without the acquisition and due to that it's also unlikely that their sales without Logitech would have been anywhere close to the number of units they have sold after being acquired by Logitech. However, all this is just guesses, none of us have access to the internal economical information so we can say for sure. Also, very few of us have the business experience to interpret the numbers even if we would have access to them. I suspect Logitech have earned back a significant part of the $20 million on the Squeezeboxes they have sold after the acquisition and I also think it would have been impossible for them to release UE Smart Radio with support for all streaming services it supports without the acquisition, so even if they decided to stop selling devices under the brand "Squeezebox" it doesn't necessarily mean that the acquisition was a failure, they are still using most of the software in the UE Smart Radio devices and also the hardware from the Squeezebox Radio which is almost identical to the UE Smart Radio hardware. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96466 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
