At £1300 I could almost justify buying a transporter, at £1700 I'm afraid it stinks of extracting the urine and Logitech will not be seeing my money.
I think it is a great pity that a company which was once highly regarded by the vast majority of people on this forum has been swallowed up and become something we probably, deep down, all knew too well would become. Corporate bean counters have had their way and I'll be very surprised if sales of the transporter in Europe don't fall through the floor. As a consequence, 12-18 months down the line the product will be dropped for being "uneconomical". Fairwell high end music streamer and retain the mass(??) market product which can be churned out of China for pennies? Let's face it, Logitech are a mass market company whether we like it or not and a non mass market product won't cut the mustard for them. Slimdevices were clearly not selling a transporter at a loss (unless they had a very peculiar business model) and at an educated guess I'd suspect it costs around $500 to manufacture one (I've worked as an electronic engineer in the computer manufacturing industry for over 20 years so I'd be surprised if i'm far off the mark). Nice little earner if you can sell it for £1700 and make about $2000 per unit and if it doesn't sell you kill if off and get rid of that expensive west coast operation as they can't survive from US sales alone. I wonder if Jim or Sean would care to comment on the European price rises and the impact they believe it will have on sales and the future viability of what was SlimDevices? For me, the emperor is wearing no clothes ..... -- killie99 Primare D30.2 CD player, MF 24/96 DAC, MF A1000 Amp, Impulse H2 speakers oh, and an SB3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ killie99's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308
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