24-Feb-2020, 00:21
I didn't swap out a lot of heavy iron, maybe a bit of it, but I did metaphorically flatten it into a box around one sixth of the height. In fact Devialet's are so low in height that you'd have to say that they didn't grow up, they grew out, to steal a description from Randy Newman.
I think the company is still creative and innovative but. like many creative and innovative people, I don't think Devialet likes developing and maintaining what they did last time, they keep shifting their focus to the next thing and then eventually go back and deliver on the "must do's" such as undelivered promises and bug fixes that they've ignored while they've been playing at something new. What they really need to do is to have enough people to deliver on the promises and fixing the problems with existing products while letting the creatives play in their sandbox and come up with their next idea. It seems that, apart from physical repair, product maintenance is an afterthought with them and that's a failing which detracts from their reputation. If they could fix that and hire a PR person who actually thinks the public should be related to and wanted to do just that rather than believing that PR would work better if there were no public so the best strategy is to act as if there is no public, they might be unstoppable and even capable of delivering on that old promise that one day everyone will own a Devialet. As it is, they just keep alienating their best brand ambassadors, the people who have bought their products.
I think the company is still creative and innovative but. like many creative and innovative people, I don't think Devialet likes developing and maintaining what they did last time, they keep shifting their focus to the next thing and then eventually go back and deliver on the "must do's" such as undelivered promises and bug fixes that they've ignored while they've been playing at something new. What they really need to do is to have enough people to deliver on the promises and fixing the problems with existing products while letting the creatives play in their sandbox and come up with their next idea. It seems that, apart from physical repair, product maintenance is an afterthought with them and that's a failing which detracts from their reputation. If they could fix that and hire a PR person who actually thinks the public should be related to and wanted to do just that rather than believing that PR would work better if there were no public so the best strategy is to act as if there is no public, they might be unstoppable and even capable of delivering on that old promise that one day everyone will own a Devialet. As it is, they just keep alienating their best brand ambassadors, the people who have bought their products.
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