If you try to push a $10k *gamble* on your company's corporate beancounters, please record a video of their laughter so we can all see it.Also, let's think about this: SE gambles $10,000 on buying ten broken dev kits
If you try to push a $10k *gamble* on your company's corporate beancounters, please record a video of their laughter so we can all see it.Also, let's think about this: SE gambles $10,000 on buying ten broken dev kits
XI, when it was new, was a much bigger risk for its time, 10k is chump change.
Bottom line, there are absolutely dev kits out there to be had, SE doesn't want them regardless of condition, they want to step back from XI as an amazing success story.
While many people like myself would likely play XI a second decade, SE' bean-counters don't see a long term profitability or they wouldn't keep trying to "end" XI. Abyssea was the end... No, wait, now its rhapsodies..... We'll see in time if this is the "end" or just another pause.
Last edited by Jile; 10-31-2015 at 02:09 AM. Reason: Fixing my phones auto changing my intended words
It's more about saving face than policies. They wont take a risk if there is a potential to lose face.
Regardless, our opinions won't effect when XI goes offline. Our pocketbooks perhaps but I'm not opening 20,000 accounts to keep them motivated lol.
That's my point. Thank you for reinforcing my point. Obviously, I wouldn't expect the bean counters at SE to just hand over $10,000. For employees to use, gambling on second-hand dev tools off of eBay?? Also, in the original eBay auction found by Rustic, where's all the accessories that go along with the base unit? Auction says power cable and a keyboard - big deal. Where's the Audio/Visual cable that connects the dev kit to the preview monitor and the monitor itself?? Purchase a potential pile of scrap without at least some usable accessories? No way.
Last edited by Billnes; 10-31-2015 at 04:53 AM.
While I can't hand you links as I sit posting in a waiting room lobby, like others, I've seen sellers post them on everything from Craigslist to eBay and gaming boards over the last year or two but since I don't have the links and even if I did I'd be told since its not from reputable sources, they are irrelevant I'll just move on so people can say I'm wrong, they're right and regardless nothing would motivate SE to buy them. Lovely circle. So by all means, give me the obligatory insults since I don't have "proof" of previous sales etc.
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So then you DON'T have proof.
The fact that you have to look in a dozen different web sites for second hand versions of this critical tool proves my point. Serious businesses don't go scrounging through junkyards for secondhand equipment. That's why, say, prisons don't have black and white TVs. They stopped selling those decades ago. The Department of Corrections would have to go scrounging through yard sales and auction sites.
ORLY now?? What about Gas Monkey Garage?? Richard Rawlings and Aaron Kaufman scour junkyards all the time. They're not a legitimate business? For the money they make just on Appearance Fees from Discovery Communications, I'd take a walk through a junkyard. Just to look at weathered old cars & assorted parts? Sounds like a good gig to me.
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