adamslim;170056 Wrote:
I think the Apple and Slim customers are very different:
Apple - like convenience, not hackers, not interested in the utmost
quality
Slim - willing to spend a bit of effort to get the product how they
like it; recognise that it is better quality but a bit more
EnochLight;169981 Wrote:
Wow - do you really think so? I mean, I respect your experience here
and abroad but I wonder if AppleTV and the Squeezebox even compete for
the same customers?
To me, AppleTV is just Apple's version of, say, a Media Extender box
for Windows MCE. If I need to
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.
One of my friends who
totoro;170142 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
Ah, Henny Penny, said Chicken Little, the sky is falling, and I
must go and tell the king.
How do you know that the sky is falling, Chicken Little? asked Henny Penny.
I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears, and a bit of it fell
on my head, said Chicken Little.
I will go with you to the
On 1/14/07, totoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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
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.
Sorry to offend, I was trying to reassure :)
The thing about sales is, you need to be solving something. Someone
who is happy with their ipod and its dock is lacking a
Jack Coates;170208 Wrote:
Ah, Henny Penny, said Chicken Little, the sky is falling, and I must
go and tell the king.
I sincerely hope the Slim team don't adopt that ostrich-like approach.
Whether it turns out to be a threat or not, when the 800 pound gorilla
comes stomping into your market,
adamslim wrote:
EnochLight;169981 Wrote:
I dunno, AppleTV may take *some* customers, but wipe out a chunk of
their sales?
I think the Apple and Slim customers are very different:
I've noticed that the SqueezeBox has always been popular with the Apple
community. I bought two of
totoro wrote:
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
On 1/14/07, CardinalFang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jack Coates;170208 Wrote:
Ah, Henny Penny, said Chicken Little, the sky is falling, and I must
go and tell the king.
I sincerely hope the Slim team don't adopt that ostrich-like approach.
Whether it turns out to be a threat or not, when the
Jack Coates;170256 Wrote:
OI'm just remembering the predictions of doom which have followed every
single entrance into this market by every single large consumer
electronics producer (doubled whenever it's Apple, even if the product
doesn't actually compete). And yet, doom has failed to
Sorry to offend, I was trying to reassure :)
Thanks. Sorry I snapped at you.
If you really want to sell some of these, start with the people in
your circle of friends who've bought home automation products. If
there aren't any, you might not have the right circle of friends for
this product :)
Jack Coates wrote:
...
* No Exchange or Office support.
No exchange support is good, the rest sucks. Exchange does IMAP and
should do SyncML too.
...
The thing is a toy and will only be used by SOHO folks and soccer
moms; end of story. It telegraphs that for all their talk about
grammer / spelling nazi, shoed bee societies not societys
On 1/12/07, jmpage2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Jack Coates;169638 Wrote:
* No Exchange or Office support.
No exchange support is good, the rest sucks. Exchange does IMAP and
should do SyncML too.
The thing is a
The original was fine I believe:
Society - singular
Societies - plural
Society's - singular possessive quoted version
Societies' - plural possessive
Steve.
Jonathan Miller;169916 Wrote:
grammer / spelling nazi, shoed bee societies not societys
I fully expect Apple to give away about
CardinalFang;169301 Wrote:
The only thing that's really relevant to Slim is that AppleTV will wipe
out a chunk of their sales...
Wow - do you really think so? I mean, I respect your experience here
and abroad but I wonder if AppleTV and the Squeezebox even compete for
the same customers?
To
EnochLight;169981 Wrote:
I dunno, AppleTV may take *some* customers, but wipe out a chunk of
their sales?
I think the Apple and Slim customers are very different:
Apple - like convenience, not hackers, not interested in the utmost
quality
Slim - willing to spend a bit of effort to get the
I'm completely done with carrier-specific firmware on any cellphone.
Carriers see handsets as some sort of marketing channel to sell you
overpriced crap; ringtones you have to re-buy every 6 months that cost
more than the actual single, games, apps, etc. They disable bluetooth
profiles so you
CardinalFang wrote:
CCRDude;168983 Wrote:
I watched the updates on engadget yesterday getting updated and updated
and updated... I assume we speak about this here?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone
Where exactly does it tell about batteries or memory extensions? Except
in
Peter;169578 Wrote:
That's totally different in Europe and probably anywhere outside the
US. I just buy a phone and use it with whatever operator I like. I
don't buy games and not from my operator either.
Many operators lock the phones to their networks and those that don't
make you pay
...
* No Exchange or Office support.
No exchange support is good, the rest sucks. Exchange does IMAP and
should do SyncML too.
...
The thing is a toy and will only be used by SOHO folks and soccer
moms; end of story. It telegraphs that for all their talk about
enterprise, Apple, Inc (no
Jack Coates;169638 Wrote:
* No Exchange or Office support.
No exchange support is good, the rest sucks. Exchange does IMAP and
should do SyncML too.
The thing is a toy and will only be used by SOHO folks and soccer
moms; end of story. It telegraphs that for all their
Jack Coates;169638 Wrote:
* No Exchange or Office support.
No exchange support is good, the rest sucks. Exchange does IMAP and
should do SyncML too.
The thing is a toy and will only be used by SOHO folks and soccer
moms; end of story. It telegraphs that for all their
Robin Bowes wrote:
ModelCitizen wrote:
Robin Bowes;169010 Wrote:
I still can't believe you bought those bird flu protection kits at £30 a
pop. :)
R.I'm not sure of the relevance of that Robin but bird flu is still
bubbling under and history pretty much shows that it is
CCRDude;168983 Wrote:
I watched the updates on engadget yesterday getting updated and updated
and updated... I assume we speak about this here?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone
Where exactly does it tell about batteries or memory extensions? Except
in dozens of
Wow, so much steam and blather in this thread and no one has mentioned
the only thing that's relevant to Slim/Squeezebox?
The web UI (or a fuure custom application once people are able to
install them - this will come) would make for a fine Squeezebox
controller.
It's clear that Apple will sell
Wow, so much steam and blather in this thread and no one has mentioned
the only thing
that's relevant to Slim/Squeezebox?
The web UI (or a fuure custom application once people are able to
install them
- this will come) would make for a fine Squeezebox controller.
Ha! At last! Like I said,
MelonMonkey;169291 Wrote:
It's clear that Apple will sell more iPhone units in the 24 hour period
of the launch day than Nokia will ever sell N800 or 770 in their
lifetimes. It stands to reason if you want to make a portable UI for
SS/SB then this platform will definitely have the
MelonMonkey;169291 Wrote:
Wow, so much steam and blather in this thread and no one has mentioned
the only thing that's relevant to Slim/Squeezebox?
steam and blather - nice. Sorry if we stopped being slim fanboys for
a moment and decided to have a discussion about another music device.
The
[
And to put it right back on topic.. The i doesn't appear to stand
for idiot. But I suspect such a question to have come from someone
acting idiotic.
No, the question came from someone with a sense of humor, which you don't
seem to have.
--
tomjtx
tomjtx wrote:
No, the question came from someone with a sense of humor, which you don't
seem to have.
sigh
Alas, a quality all too conspicuous by its absence on these forums of late.
R.
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Robin Bowes;169349 Wrote:
Alas, a quality all too conspicuous by its absence on these forums of
late.
I dunno, I was pleasantly surprised by the traction of the wormcable
discussion.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's
Robin Bowes;169349 Wrote:
tomjtx wrote:
No, the question came from someone with a sense of humor, which you
don't
seem to have.
sigh
Alas, a quality all too conspicuous by its absence on these forums of
late.
R.
Alac, perchance the humor is proprietary:-)
Tom
--
tomjtx
In general, I hate cell phones, and wouldn't mind too much if a law were
passed allowing one to shoot annoying cell phone users on sight. I also
grow weary of Mac zealots that equate Steve Jobs with Jesus Christ
reach for the torches and pitchforks if anyone utters the slightest
misgiving about
Craig, James (IT);168914 Wrote:
It does have wi-fi
It does, but it's not possible to download media except by a connection
to a Mac/PC. The WiFi seems to be solely for web browsing, although the
problem with WiFi outside the home is the lack of roaming agreements
between WiFi providers.
It's
jonheal wrote:
In general, I hate cell phones, and wouldn't mind too much if a law were
passed allowing one to shoot annoying cell phone users on sight. I also
grow weary of Mac zealots that equate Steve Jobs with Jesus Christ
reach for the torches and pitchforks if anyone utters the slightest
CardinalFang;168945 Wrote:
It does, but it's not possible to download media except by a connection
to a Mac/PC. The WiFi seems to be solely for web browsing, although the
problem with WiFi outside the home is the lack of roaming agreements
between WiFi providers.
Widgets (as shown)
According to Wired Magazine the battery is NOT user replaceable.
That alone is reason enough for me to not buy it.
--
tomjtx
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Peter;168948 Wrote:
jonheal wrote:
In general, I hate cell phones, and wouldn't mind too much if a law
were
passed allowing one to shoot annoying cell phone users on sight. I
also
grow weary of Mac zealots that equate Steve Jobs with Jesus Christ
reach for the torches and pitchforks
CCRDude;168956 Wrote:
Widgets (as shown) obviously need the ability to communicate online, how
else could the Weather app show its data? And the Google Maps app...
would you call that web browsing? Looked like a dedicated app. And
then, it's MacOSX.
I specifically said media, as in music,
CardinalFang;168971 Wrote:
Time magazine, engadget, gizmodo
I watched the updates on engadget yesterday getting updated and updated
and updated... I assume we speak about this here?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone
Where exactly does it tell about batteries or memory
tomjtx;168909 Wrote:
no user replacable battery
If this is true (and I realise it's open to question) it's criminal
considering the unbelievably and extremely crap battery Apple put in
the third generation iPod. 500 UK Pounds for a music player that played
good quality mp3s for only two hours
ModelCitizen wrote:
tomjtx;168909 Wrote:
no user replacable battery
If this is true (and I realise it's open to question) it's criminal
considering the unbelievably and extremely crap battery Apple put in
the third generation iPod. 500 UK Pounds for a music player that played
good quality
Robin Bowes;169010 Wrote:
I still can't believe you bought those bird flu protection kits at £30 a
pop. :)
R.I'm not sure of the relevance of that Robin but bird flu is still
bubbling under and history pretty much shows that it is inevitable that
a pandemic will occur.. so £30 for some
ModelCitizen wrote:
Robin Bowes;169010 Wrote:
I still can't believe you bought those bird flu protection kits at £30 a
pop. :)
R.I'm not sure of the relevance of that Robin but bird flu is still
bubbling under and history pretty much shows that it is inevitable that
a pandemic will occur..
On 1/10/07, ModelCitizen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If this is true (and I realise it's open to question) it's criminal
considering the unbelievably and extremely crap battery Apple put in
the third generation iPod. 500 UK Pounds for a music player that played
good quality mp3s for only two hours
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