I was thinking: Apple's success in this arena is not exactly assured. Anyone remember Apple's last "Squeezebox killer"? It was some sort of overpriced boombox you could plug your iPod into. Well I've seen one mention of it since but it's so obscure only 4-6 months after its release I can't even remember its name.
Airport Express generated a bit more buzz but it was never as ubiquitous or desirable as an iPod. And Apple are desperately trying to promote a Mac as being the same sort of experience as an iPod, with some success but nothing earth-shattering. Perhaps their ad campaign is misfiring: I don't know about you but on those TV spots I find the geeky PC persona much more funny and likeable than the smug, patronizing, unfunny Mac guy. Just about every other "media extender" has a TV interface and they haven't captured the public's imagination as much as the iPod. It's strange that in one thread a few months ago someone was complaining about the SB drawing ~0.5 W on standby. Now we have people being enthused about using a 200-300 W display along with their music. The masses like video much more than audio and they would never have been interested in an SB anyway. I've seen a lot of people comment about the SB: "there's no video out?" No, there's no video out, and that's partly the point. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27325 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
