In small companies, it's not uncommon for employees to remain hushed about everything other than that which is officially released to press - there are a lot of things that can go wrong with an untimely information leak.
Its difficult to speculate about why the Snow is dropped from the lineup. I can make a number of guesses, but have no reason to feel any one of my guesses is more valid than another.
It was likely their product with the lowest profit margin, and it's one that would benefit from initially higher sales (due to lower entry cost), but at some point sales would likely plateau. If manufacturing labor or parts costs continued to increase, and there weren't ongoing to sales to support it, the item with the lowest margin would likely be the first to go.
Sometimes the presence of a value offering in a lineup cannibalizes the sales off the more premium version, so it could be that.
Or it could be that they are finally doing an overhaul of the product lineup so the last one in will be the first one out and all of them will be replaced by a new synth?
Only possible theories at this point. Sometimes products with the lowest margin are dropped simply as a simplicity of operations move.
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