Jack Coates;170211 Wrote: > On 1/14/07, totoro <totoro.2kei9n1168779301 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > > > I love my sb3. As far as I'm concerned, my quality of life improved > a > > lot when I got it. > > > > But I haven't been able to convince any of my friends to get one. > One > > friend _did_ decide to build a quiet pc and stick it in his living > room > > with a dac, but that's as close as I got. > > > > World population: 6,525,170,264 (July 2006 est.) > > This website (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm) gives an > English-speaking Internet users estimate of 327,084,785. > > 1 percent market penetration is 3,270,847 people, who buy an > guesstimated average of 2.5 Squeezeboxes each, maybe for a total price > of $600 or so (sales and freebies and what have you). > > That's $1,962,508,200. In other words, products can be successful > without anyone you know buying them. > -- > "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, > So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional
Yes, I can add and subtract, too. As you might have noticed, I was talking about my inability to get anyone else to by one. I was a little surprised that I couldn't get anyone else interested in one, since my circle of friends and acquaintances includes a lot of engineers and programmers, as well as music lovers. I'm admittedly no salesman, but I would have thought I would have gotten _someone_ else to get one. Part of this is due to the fact that many of these people perceived the thing as fussy to set up. This seems like the biggest issue to me. And let's face it: lots of the people I'm concerned with do have ipods, so the problem isn't that they don't like computer based audio products. -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31507 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
