Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes
esc27@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Logitech has gone from one of the best tech brands to essentially garbage.
At work, the IT security team had to block Logitech Options because they added some sort of AI functionality to it without adding a killswitch for enterprise customers…
iTerm added AI stuff but at least they added a killswitch (a setting in a plist file I think) to force it to be disabled.
Their mice are great, until they need a subscription, for some reason…
Even their hardware design these days is them copying popular products from smaller tech companies
from smaller tech companies
Like what?
Look at the Logitech MX mechanical mini keyboard and Keychron K3 side by side
…it looks like pretty much every other 75% tkl out there ¯\(°_o)/¯
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t doubt that Logitech would be “borrowing” designs, but this sounds like a bit of a stretch
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Sad but true. And they are taking some good stuff with them.
Squeeze box back in the day was the biggest competitor to Sonos. All open source. Logitech bought them, then just shut it down for no apparent reason. Same thing happened with Harmony. Best user programmable remote on the market, Logitech buys them, then shuts them down for no apparent reason.
I wish someone would scrape together a few million bucks or whatever Logitech would want to sell both brands, buy them, and resurrect them.
toynbee@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mama’s got a squeeze box.
Daddy never sleeps at night.