Below is a copy of an email I sent to SlimDevices sales and support. Users comments would be greatly appreciated as we may be able to get SlimDevices to come out with right product. --- Dear Management & Designers (I hope this gets to you),
I was thrilled when I saw that SlimDevices would be coming out with an LCD display controller because I have been so frustrated by the one line display of the SqueezeBox. However, when I read that the screen size was 2.4 my enthusiasm was completely deflated. I have looked forward to an LCD screen from you (a la Sonos or iPhone) for years. The benefit of visually scrolling through a graphic (album cover) representation of a music collection has so much more efficiency and satisfaction. Importantly, as millions of iPhone users, other cell phone LCD screen squinters and PDA users would attest, a larger screen or larger screen font is a significant factor in their purchasing decision. The demographic that can afford and will buy your product is mainly presbyopic (i.e., they need reading glasses). These are people that earn the income to have homes or multi-room apartments/condos, they have a good or high quality stereo system, they are digitally savvy with backup hard drives and networks, they are educated and they are probably not in their 20s or early 30s. You are missing the appeal to this market by putting a cell phone-sized screen on a stick. The SqueezeBox Controller will miss its opportunity to be a runaway hit and quash the pricier competition (Sonos). If you must make and sell this product with this small screen, I would debut a prototype on your website of a more expensive larger LCD screen controller. Those that are price conscious and are comfortable with the smaller screen will rush in to buy that. Those that will only want to use the larger screen will say they finally got it right and its worth waiting and paying for. I accept that it doesnt help that my digital music collection is hundreds of albums and thousands of songs. However, this is probably typical of most of your customers that have gone digital. You can imagine how cumbersome the SqueezeBox is to use with this library, especially if you lack the facility of a computer-gamer. It has gotten to the point where I now mainly use the SqueezeBox as an Internet radio station tuner. A larger screen LCD controller would open my whole music collection again. Please consider this device and the wisdom of this strategic marketing move. Thank you for your consideration in reading this. Sincerely, Steve -- noduplicates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ noduplicates's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14956 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813
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