Mnyb;669266 Wrote: > +1 they should not aim at the massmarket, they should aim at to be > biggest in thier niche . > > a product for music nerds and hifi nuts, I'll bet there is 100 time > more music nerds that hifi nuts and shall we gues that 1/10 hifi nut > own a squeezebox or a sonos or similar, so they have not come close to > saturate thier " niche " market . > > I always believed that it is possible to expand 10 to 100 times in this > niche ? this would be profitable enough to support the product. > I think Logitech would seriusly overeach thier competence if they even > tried to aproach massmarket in this kind of product. they done it in > mice and pc speakers ,but I don't think they can with this kind of > product. > > A prerequsite 90% of the population don't have is a serius music > interest, they just want's a device that " plays something " A little > effort in ripping and tagging on some serius exploring of the apps > function for the online services should tweak any music entusiast :) > but without a real music interest you wont get involved and explore the > product, You wont be motivated to learn a little bit to get so much more > back . > > and seruisly I find some desktop software harder to use than my whole > squeezebox system ? > > dumbing it down would be a serius mistake , there a lot of products > that demands a little inital effort to use but loved by thier users . > some of my colegues are into diving or waterskiing or motorbikes . > I would find scuba gear waterskiis or offroad motorcycles hard to > operate and maintain. > I would have a learning curve if tried thier stuff I would not blame > the product.
Some very good points. I want more and SB players give me more - more choice, quicker access, intro to HiFI/Hi-res etc. etc. - the mass market don't want that. I think it is probably hard for us SBE's (squeezebox enthusiasts) to get our head round why joe public wouldn't want a solution as good as ours. However with logitech you have generally a mass market company, mice, keyboards, speakers etc. who bought some niche products - SB, Harmony and also has struggled with another potentially niche product in the Revue - there is a conflict in the product make-up -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91460 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
