JJZolx wrote: > I'd be curious to know... Of all the people posting here with their gung > ho enthusiasm for such a piece of equipment, how many will actually buy > one or more at the expected price of (what are we up to now?) $300-$400? > Personally, I have more Squeezeboxes than I know what to do with. I > would have to think that nearly everyone else here does also. If I were > to buy one, it would mostly be to play around with. > > For this to be doable, even to have a run of, say, 100 units, it needs > to be viable as a Squeezebox replacement that is usable by someone > completely new to the Squeezebox ecosystem. Someone, who if they said > "I've always wanted to try a Squeezebox, but I can't buy one", you could > recommend without reservation that they purchase one of these devices > rather than telling them to watch for a used Touch on ebay or > Craigslist. > I'm fairly sure there are 100 people on these forums who would be interested just because it's fun to do a DIY solution, there are a lot of geeks around here, some posting but also a lot who isn't active posters.
Selling it for $300-$400 to someone who is not a DIY geek and doesn't own a Squeezebox already is going to be hard. I suspect you will be able to build it for less than $300, as I've understood it's just the case and power supply that's missing, but it will still be hard to sell it to someone who isn't owning a Squeezebox and isn't a DIY geek. They would prefer to get a used Squeezebox from eBay or just get a Sonos or one of the other alternatives available in their local store for similar price. However, are we really targeting users who don't have a Squeezebox already ? To me it feels like the initial target would be DIY geeks on these forums and possibly also some enthusiasts who aren't scared to try something new, all owning at least one Squeezebox already and loving the Squeezebox system and interested to try something new. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
