Munich 2018

[IanG-UK]

Any word why we should trust their promises this time?
You know a lot has been said in recent years, also from top management including CEO.

You’ve probably answered your own question, ie we shouldn’t.

As far as I can tell though no promises were made and I’d much rather they under promise and over deliver. Ultimately the only thing that matters is what they do, and I guess it will be obvious after 6 months to a year. It doesn’t seem like the new Expert team are at the level of the original creators which I guess is inevitable so let’s just hope they’ve either been constrained over the last couple of years and/or have loads of fantastic new ideas.

Above all hopefully they are perfectionists.

The only difference I'd guess you and I are aware of is at the partner level where comment from Devialet is probably limited by legal agreements. As far as we know, Monsieur Calmel is still leading the technical aspects and it is entirely clear that Mathieu is still at the heart of the Expert project. They were the original team. 

I don't know about team aspects in relation to Phantom but in the scheme of things that product won't interest many Expert users on DC. Indeed I think that part of the historic problem has been Devialet's attempt to try to deliver Expert and Phantom through the same marketing and sales stream when the reality is that they are pretty much mutually exclusive in terms of potential customer populations.

BTW, they accept the issue of having overpromised and underdelivered and they are committed to the need to change that.