squishy wrote: > OK, I think I've just about digested all this uproar. I guess my take is > this..... > > Dumbing down the complexity in order to achieve a simpler > user-experience, more reliable functionality (eg alarm that works > without fail) and appeal to the wider mass market - I can appreciate > that logic. > > But doing so by giving your loyal user-community no transition path (we > have to replace our entire eco-system to UE in one go - radio excepted) > seems borderline suicidal. > Which even assumes that the UE brand achieves enough momentum to justify > further products. We have to assume a touch equivalent, surely. > > If the system was being re-architected from the ground up, then it would > be easier to understand the choice to sever links with the past. Brave > if risky. > But given that the new server is clearly based on the existing LMS, > choosing to break backwards-compatability (to legacy hardware) seems > very questionable - at best. > > There has always been a trade-off between the open-ness of the system > and its ability to appeal to a less technical market. > Given the nature of Logitech, that trade off was only ever going to move > in one direction. More closed. > What is surprising is the brutality of the change - given the success of > the radio & touch. > > > Like most others, I'll stick with what works for now and see what the > future holds.
Well said. I'm really struggling to figure out the rationale. Either there's some more stuff to come that we haven't guessed, the community's general interpretation is wildly off, or they made a pretty dubious business decision. And this is coming from a newbie who has not yet become invested in the SB ecosystem. Seems like they have a really low-cost way to not piss off likely their fiercest advocates. Also, by all accounts, the Touch is pretty successful commercially and really successful critically. Not sure about the rest of the non-Radio line. In any event, they've already borne the ramp-up costs...hard to believe they wouldn't have a decent margin going forward if they kept cranking out Touches unchanged. And it really wouldn't seem to cannibalize their new UE Radio sales, either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DubMarc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56796 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
