toasterdude
Experienced
The interesting part for me was, Line6, DigiTech and the other large companies will have seen this coming, and watched it appear and sail right by them, totally incapable of doing anything about it.
In large businesses / corporations, they often get to the stage where they are so busy resting on their laurels, and their management are literally terrified of taking a punt on something daring and new, the risk seems so much greater when your feet are under the table and there is potentially more to lose if it fails. Ultimately you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Line6 didn't and well, they ended up getting sold off. Digitech lost the plot and went back to making pedals again.
Line 6 got sold off? and? I am betting the founders of Line 6 got a nice big payday. I never see the point in comparing a boutique modeler with a large corporation with dozens of products and multiple product lines.
Yes Cliff created a modeler that blows away the Line 6 flagship but costs 7 times as much. Is it worth 7 times as much? To me it is, which is why I have two.
I don't seem to see the FAS wireless, guitars, PA systems, audio interfaces, VSTs, IOS apps, keyboards etc. I don't want to see any of that from FAS, well most of it any way.
You are comparing apples to donuts.