fitzj
The decision was made to better align with the company’s acquisition strategy that is heavily focused on growth in the global consumer electronics audio business under the Philips brand.
I realize you are quoting the original statement here fitz, but I must ask for anyone who might know.
So does this mean Philips is running the show and making the call on this? Or does this mean Philips will be taking over the brand?
Sounds like Gibson has heavily invested itself in a bunch of electronic parts that they are going to have to scrap unless they have the software technology to make it viable as a selling platform to the general public and they decided to make that Sonar/Cakewalk technology and the only way you may be able to get it is by buying their electronics Perhaps? Oh well, I should probably put a tin hat on after that comment. But I have no idea. Just theorizing.
You feel really bad when your musical heroes die, you know people like Hendrix, Curt Cobain, Elvis, Chuck Berry, and other's along those lines. But when your Platform for creating music dies, I for one can't help but say : "Whoever made money or is making money off of the demise of this software must be a real special type of greedy person, they will get theirs in the end, because you don't do that much harm to others without eventually karma coming back to bite you in the end".
As for Gibson, they've been selling these knockoff Epiphone's for years, I bought one two years ago and had to repair the plugin connection myself. Why? Because I didn't want to go through all the paperwork and EXTRA MONEY it would have cost me to send it back to a company where I might get it back even more damaged than it was to begin with.
I am forever gonna be a FENDER and STRAT player from here on out. LOL! Knowing my luck, they'll get bought out and cancelled.......... Oh well. I don't blame anyone here for being ticked off, upset and left with the feeling that their best friend just passed away. Believe me when I say I feel your pain. You are not alone!