Comments on Profile Post by Hrodulf

Samsung owns Roon

Could be a good thing. We'll see how much investment they put into it. Or maybe will be a bad thing. Big corpos don't know what to do with cool stuff. Samsung could assign another Amir type VP to run it into the ground.

I'm not too concerned. Harman has a pretty good track record of not ruining their niche acquisitions. The question is what Roon will be obliged to do growth-wise. Scummy SaaS practices can kill enthusiast interest.

Sweet, now I can bitch about Roon to my Samsung execs and reps.

Samsung has a habit of keeping bespoke software platforms around, unlike Oracle. As an example, Samsung has owned BMC Marimba for a while and slapped the Harman name in front, but hasn’t changed anything else with it.

Not holding my breath that Harman will fix Poon's bag of shite system for classical music. Why the bloody thing feels the need to list the wanking translator of the liner notes while not being able to ID composers is beyond me.

@Tchoupitoulas you are too good for Roon. To be fair, no streaming service is even close on catering to classical music. This means Apple Music too.