Here's the cost then, no sales due to the classic "why does it suck at being an alarm clock" argument. With multiple alarms people can do simple things like have it switch channels at certain times. Like to show a set of channels better geared for a particular time of day (weather and traffic updates before leaving work, etc). Or a fundamentally simple thing like just dim the screen at night and wake up again the next morning. With all the noise lately about 'going green' it's a glaring flaw to not have the ability to at least appear to turn off by dimming the screen. The box sits there with it's screen constantly lit. You have to manually hit the button to kill it. Not exactly ideal for a device that's supposed to be largely passive most of the time. Made even worse by not being able to automatically resume where it left off when powered back up again. Really, is this a point worth arguing against? Especially when it has already been proven as a workable solution, with the programming already done, on the other chumby devices? Yes, some degree of additional development and testing is going to be needed, but nowhere near as much as creating something from scratch. Pony up the money and get chumby to implement the feature. Or suffer more lost sales. Especially the more cost-effective ones like referrals.
