SuperQ wrote:
Peter;167582 Wrote:
JimC wrote:[color=blue]
Cool. Can you open up a few hundred more houses for me to send
prospective customers to?
On a less facetious note, WHY do they realize it's great?
Exactly, because in my experience, it's not an easy sell at all.
Regards,
Peter
Never underestimate the network affect!
I'm living proof of the fact that the network effect doesn't work that
well in this case.
I saw the slimp3 on slashdot many years ago and thought "damn, that's
cool".. but I had just got my empeg, so it seemed kinda lacking. A few
That was different for me, I was waiting for the thing even before it
was announced, check out my 2001 news post:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.home.automation/msg/b99c1b2d71ec5f27?hl=en&;
years later, I don't drive to work anymore, so I don't listen to music
in the car so often, and spent more time at home listening via the
linux box I kept in stereo cabinet. A friend of mine said "hey, check
out this new toy I got" this was my introduction to the squeezebox..
pretty cool, so i got one for my parents to listen to music with.
Another move, and I end up in Mountain View, and discover the SD office
is near by.. neat, I should get the new box SB2. I ended up getting 2,
so I can stream to 2 rooms. I show it to a few co-workers, and a few
of them get them.
I do a bit of "check it out, it's handy" and a bit of "oh.. play
around a bit"
I've now got 4 SB3's, an SB1 and a SliMP3. I loaned my SB1 to 3
co-workers, they liked it but only one of them bought one. It's to
complicated to give one to my mum, I fear. She won't want to keep her PC
switched on.
I've also sold a couple via softsqueeze demos.
That's good to hear. I was one of the people who persuaded Richard to
write SoftSqueeze (I even invented the name) partly because it would be
a great way to show people how the SS/SB combo works in practice. I'm
glad to see it actually worked out that way in practice. I must have at
least some commercial sense, then... ;)
Regards,
Peter
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