Goodsounds;432065 Wrote: > > > the availability of 3rd party plugins, both music-related and not, is > a key difference > > between Squeezebox and its closest competitors. I think it should be > more prominently highlighted > > Let's think about the target market. I'd bet the vast majority - maybe > 3 of 4 - wouldn't understand or care about this at all. And, ultimately, > won't distinguish available features as between sources. Do you think > otherwise? > > These pages are the marketing equivalent of the "elevator speech" > cliche - putting specs of any kind only clutter and dilute the message. > The message needs to be crisp and condensed. You'll notice that the > specs are anything but prominent, that's not inadvertent.
It's difficult to prove which is better when two products do very similar things; no Web site is going to persuade anyone whether Squeezebox or Sonos is a better-sounding network music player. So it makes sense not to spend time talking about -90 dB noise vs -100 dB noise. What's easy to do is point out when a product does something the other simply cannot. With a Squeezebox Controller, Classic, Boom, or Transporter, I can display weather conditions & forecasts, sports scores, commuter train information, and more. With Sonos, I could not. Logitech shouldn't spend much effort marketing what's theoretically possible with the Squeezebox open architecture, but it should promote the expanded capabilities actually provided (usually for free!) by third-parties. Consider weather. Greg Brown's SuperDateTime has offered this for 4 years, but Sonos customers are left out in the cold; all they can do is beg Sonos to provide this for their more expensive but less-capable gear: http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=5291, http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=11192 Logitech should seriously consider mining the Sonos forums to create a feature comparison chart. Scanning through that second thread, it seems like half of the things mentioned there are either standard features of Squeezebox or available through prominent (free!) plugins. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64421 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
