HDMI buys Miglia, will no longer be Mac-only
updated 02:30 am EDT, Fri June 15, 2007
HDMI buy Miglia
HDMI Group has announced a buyout of Miglia, a company that makes various Mac-specific peripherals including devices for viewing television on Macs, storage solutions and iChat/Skype-compatible phones. Post-buyout, HDMI plans to expand Miglia's product line beyond Macs to Windows and perhaps other platforms. HDMI says it will continue to provide Miglia customers with sales, pre-sales, technical support, as well as honor any warranties on products purchased prior to this change. Pocket-Lint reports that Avent Bezuidenhoudt, Investment Manager at SEGF (the capital firm backing the buyout), said: "We have high expectations for the growth of HDMI Group and Miglia and we are looking forward to our involvement in the business. Not only does Miglia have an impressive range of innovative products, but the HDMI Group management team has also demonstrated excellent credentials. We look forward to a successful partnership for the future."
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pity
here comes the slippery slope.
you start by being an innovative mac only company, you expand into the windows market, at which point you find that your time is taken up completely supporting the windows sales (whether they are significantly more or not). Finally they high a smart-a** no nothing MBA to run the company, who notices most of the staff are spending most of their time working on the windows side of things, at which he cites market forces and promptly discontinues the mac products.
oh well too bad, I was thinking about buying one of their TV tuners, but I might have to think again.