Phil Leigh;644769 Wrote: > Your analysis makes no sense. The Market is skewed towards people who > have been brainwashed into believing that using a NAS to run server > software (including SBS) is a good idea. Therefore it should be no > surprise that the ratio is 1.6:1 regardless of the Total installed base > ratio of Windows:*nix "computers". > > There is no way you can extrapolate any conclusion about sales volumes > from these ratios.
Of course you can. The market shares are known. - Windows is by far the main market, the one you cannot afford to miss. - OSX is a small, but interesting market, with users ready to pay for hype an ease of use. - Linux and NAS are anecdotic (especially Linux desktop), market of technical aware users often ready to accept very poor user interface, especially if you give them funny tweaks taking several hours per day of their time. mysqueezebox.com data ratios are apparently - Windows vs Linux 1.6 : 1 - Linux vs OSX 3 : 1 Linux+NAS market share is so small compared to Windows+OSX, that having so big proportion on Linux+NAS for SBS, necessarily means that volumes are very low. If I sell products, and tell you that 50% is used on MS-DOS ... It means the total volume cannot exceed twice the number of domestic computers with MS-DOS. Will you believe me if I tell you it is a successful product ??? Will you say that it is not possible to extrapolate sales volumes ??? I agree with you NAS is a nonsense in a domestic use. There is hype about it, but honestly, among all the people you know, having a computer at home, how many of them have a NAS ? Here in France, I found Squeezeboxes in big stores a few years ago. Most of them drop them. That means it doesn't meet the average user demands. Namely stability, reliability, ease of use, mainly, if not only, on Windows/OSX Most customers won't ever care about multiroom or plugins. -- nicolas75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicolas75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89143 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
