04-Dec-2015, 17:20
(03-Dec-2015, 21:27)IanG-UK Wrote: Can you imagine Apple, BMW, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, ... taking this sort of approach.
This is not to defend Devialet, but since they've said they emulate Apple let's compare that a bit.
Apple is more skilled at communications, yes, but that just makes their lack of information intentional. Apple wouldn't provide any information about an unreleased product. Many Apple customers have complained about buying a new device the day before it was made obsolete by a new version. Apple is secretive to the point of paranoia: using inferior parts to punish a supplier information leak, putting new employees on fake projects to test their loyalty, etc. So if Devialet were to follow the Apple model you wouldn't know anything about the D900 until it was released. The D900s would be shipped in locked boxes to the dealers and only opened the night before launch. The D900 would have impressive new features and the new software for it wouldn't run on the D800 thereby forcing you to upgrade if you wanted the new features. I wish Devialet were a more competent company, but wishing them to be more like Apple might be a mistake. The similarity might be that we're willing to put up with the quirks of Apple and Devialet because they make the best product for our needs.
If we want to know more about upcoming Devialet products we could take the approach we do with Apple: getting our information from Devialet's supply-chain, patent filings, hints in code, etc. I'm definitely interested if anyone wants to apply that level of scrutiny to Devialet.
In the mean time I eagerly await Guillaume's review of the D900, as that's probably our best source of information. Thanks, Guillaume, for taking one for the team by testing the Original d'Atelier.