Haskil
Addicted to Fun and Learning
What you're saying doesn't make sense. Pardon.Linkplay is a systems integrator, most of these features are developed for brands they work with, then they release a low-price system under their own brand (Wiim) undercutting their own customers.. Of course it's cheaper when your competitors pay for most of the development. Is this illegal? No, and the brands made a mistake trusting Linkplay. But it's definitely a gray zone.
Then there is their agressive sales, often promising prices, features and quality that they can not meet, knowing that when a project is 75% in you can not move to a different platform and the brands are now dependent on them.
And then they hack in some features (Airplay..) without permission from service providers and sell a product, suddenly it has to be removed.. This is definitely not OK.
(Full disclosure, I work for another SI..)
All those who follow the Wiim forums see live the requests for improvement of the Wiim application linked to their products implemented in the days and weeks following the request...
They therefore do not reuse studies financed by other brands who order OEMs from them in their products sold less expensively...
And apart from this Airplay story explained by Wiim on its forums, I do not see any products that have been withdrawn and even fewer products not respecting the announced performances.