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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6559382" data-attributes="member: 177">With respect, I think you may be missing something fundamental that is key: The product plan with movies is probably astonishingly different from the product plan without movies.&nbsp; They don't know how the movie thing is going to fall out yet.&nbsp; If they start down the road of a plan without movies, they will have to scrap that plan, at significant cost, customer annoyance, and delay.&nbsp; If they start down the road of a plan with movies, and the movie thing falls through, that whole line of plan just outright fails taking its investment with it.They are in the position of not having enough solid information about major future situations to engage in major development plans.&nbsp; The failure of the electronic tool line probably also made an ugly dent in whatever plans they may have had, and restarting that may not be an option.And yes, folks will say they should license electronic development (as if that went so well before!)&nbsp; - again, with the movie thing in the air, the value of those license deals is up in the air.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6559382, member: 177"] With respect, I think you may be missing something fundamental that is key: The product plan with movies is probably astonishingly different from the product plan without movies. They don't know how the movie thing is going to fall out yet. If they start down the road of a plan without movies, they will have to scrap that plan, at significant cost, customer annoyance, and delay. If they start down the road of a plan with movies, and the movie thing falls through, that whole line of plan just outright fails taking its investment with it. They are in the position of not having enough solid information about major future situations to engage in major development plans. The failure of the electronic tool line probably also made an ugly dent in whatever plans they may have had, and restarting that may not be an option. And yes, folks will say they should license electronic development (as if that went so well before!) - again, with the movie thing in the air, the value of those license deals is up in the air. [/QUOTE]

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