Quote Originally Posted by Sn0wm@n View Post
so you would rather have amd lose money on a certain market just to please 100 or so person .... and lose how many millions that could have been invested elsewhere that it would make sense ....
Imagine you are the head of the desktop division and the board comes to you and says "here's $5M, go bring us another product for the roadmap."

Do you put that into something that brings in $500K-$1M in revenue or do you put it into something that brings in $10-20M in revenue.

With a full portifolio and all of your R&D dollars accounted for, adding something like this means you have to either A.) hire more people, spend more capital or B.) cancel an existing project.

So, generally speaking, when you ask to add anything to the product roadmap, you are essentially having to make a tradeoff. Nobody is going to ask for more more money in order to lose money nor is anyone going to ask to cancel a profitable program to replace it with an unprofitable program. It just doesn't happen.