Squeezemenicely wrote: > Thanks Ben, > > But from what you wrote, SBs actually made money, so why change it? > >
I'm wondering if anyone can shed more light on this. The short answer to that question is of course that Squeezebox and Logitech were not living in the same world. Squeezebox is an enthusiast niche product. Logitech is not a company that can identify with that. So there has to have been a lack of love from the beginning, and the lack of love would eventually translate into abandonment. The companies and the culture within the companies would also have been incongruent with each other. In short, they would resemble disharmonious frequencies. Art house movies versus box office hits. Britney Spears versus Röyksopp. Wood flooring versus laminate. Craftmanship versus Ikea. Whatever metaphors you can invent. So the short answer is that some people just didn't like it, because it wasn't like them. It may have interfered with their ego, or their status, or their ability to control it and turn it into something they would want to see it become. I think if a company executive has a product line under his wings and he is NOT able to mold it according to his desires, which would be the case if the team working on it obeyed a different corporate culture, he is going to hate on it because it defies his power. I think in the end Logitech ditched it because it refused efforts to turn it into Logitech. I can't turn you into me, and I need to turn you into me so that I can love myself through you. European / American imperialism is a story of the same... The way parents raise their children is often a story of the same... If I can't turn you into me, I'll despise you and hate you and try to destroy you. When Columbus arrived on the island of Hispaniola which now houses Haiti and the Dominican Republic, he started out by exporting the locals as slaves to make boatloads of money. The remainder of these Taino indians, as they called themselves, were set to work on the plantations. They proved to be bad workers; physically weak to endure the slave labour, and high spirited to fight back against the Spaniards and to commit mass suicide. The Spaniards were not able to turn them into good slaves. So eventually they resorted to simply wiping them out. In 1492 there were 300,000 of these people on the island; by 1555 all had been wiped out. Then they simply replaced them with African slaves who were much easier to control and exploit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xenthar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188
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