If we worried much about Logitech, we'd never get anything done. Once someone finds Roomie, they pretty much always choose Roomie. Our challenge is not whether we're a better product, but simply making people aware that Roomie exists.
roomieremote.com/feature-comparison/
Roomie is so far ahead on the feature front that we can't see them in the rear view mirror. The Harmony line is about massive marketing spend, take over retail displays, cover entire web pages with ads, it's safe to say they spend many millions on marketing and we spend peanuts.
We think past actions speak for themselves. The likelihood that we will reverse engineer PS4 or add Sony's official PS4 protocol the moment they release it is pretty much a given. That's what we do. Meanwhile, every IP control device Harmony adds shoots themselves in the foot as it's yet another formerly infrared device that people no longer need Logitech's hardware to control, and if people don't buy their hardware hub, they have no business model. In this instance, Sony has already indicated the solution will be IP based, so Bluetooth also wont help.
We'd love to beat anyone to the punch on PS4. It's very likely we could reverse engineer it given our analysis to date, but the only way to reverse engineer it correctly may be to extract encryption keys from Sony products. Doing that isn't difficult, but puts us in a gray area of legality that we'd like not to cross especially when Sony has clearly indicated a desire to publish this information. Working through the system and making clear that we're adhering to the rules is the better path just as we recently demonstrated with our great integrations of DISH, TiVo, and Kaleidescape all of which were at one time in a very similar situation.
That's not to say there are not cases where reverse engineering is the right way to go. There are many of them, we do it literally every day in appropriate circumstances. But this does not appear to be one at this time.
Thank you.