dial;496945 Wrote: > I genuinely think it's more significant than that. Companies routinely > go out of business. Studies have shown that company size is very weakly > correlated with likelihood of going out of business (de Guilmi, C; > Gallegati, M.; 2004, Physica A, Vol 334, pp.267-273). Companies > routinely exploit lock-in in various ways not to the advantage of > customers. The costs to customers may be non-obvious opportunity > costs....
It doesn't even need to be that catastrophic of an event (entire company goes out of business). Logitech could simply decide that the costs to support MySB servers throughout the world and server software development expenses are not justified by hardware sales revenue. They could just shut down the SB product portion and move on. Ask anyone who purchased music from Yahoo. Yahoo is huge and still around, but decided that the music download business was just not worth it. Millions of Yahoo music customers were left with unusable music (legally). But again, this is highly unlikely for the SB products in the foreseeable future. Logitech bought them because they saw value in the SB line. Their players are selling wildly and they just keep adding new services. So popular these players are that used SB players hold their value, almost unheard of in the CE industry! :) -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72771 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
