IMHO, the two biggest threats to Slim Devices' competitive advantage are: * Product design - most 'normal' people think the Roku styling is better. * Simple software installation - most 'normal' people can't (or can't be bothered) to spend hours reconfiguring their computer to get an application running - if it doesn't work reliably straight from the tin, they'll just send it back and move on.
The second produces a major dilemma - the opensource community is notoriously geeky and seems to just love wading though reams of poorly documented or undoccumented source code to re-configure it for some strange combination of a Linux installation. But if the company concentrates on supporting and making the software work seamlessly with Windows and iUnix, it will probably alienate the geeks. I wonder what will happen when Bill Gates tries to buy Slim Devices. ;) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean Adams Sent: 12 March 2005 07:56 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Open firmware for SB2? > Let SLIM hold the familty jewels so they can get a return on the > investment they have made. > Holding..... Holding.... uh... _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
