JackOfAll wrote: > OK, how do I put this, without causing offence..... > > This is exactly what I don't think we want to portray. Circuit boards, > wires and geek chic. Put the Wandboard circuit board in both halves of > the plastic case, at least! ;) We can have a techy pictures page where > we can have as many shots of circuit boards as people can upload, but > think of this as being the marketing picture, showing at least something > that wouldn't immediately be rejected on the WAF scale, that wouldn't > look totally out of place on a hi-fi rack, that looks like it might be a > product you bought as pre-built, rather than something you quickly > lashed together in your garage. Yes, I know this is a DIY project, but > we don't need to portray it as something you might need to be soldering > together, and require geek skills to stand any chance of getting it to > work. It's a music playing device, not a circuit board. We're "selling", > (if we were selling a product which of course we are not), the Community > Squeeze Player, not Wandboards. The circuit board is a means to an end, > not the "product". I'm not suggesting taking it too far, artistic shots > with bottles of fine wine in the background, propping up a classic Miles > Davis album sleeve et all, but imagine we are trying to sell an image of > us and what we are trying to do and attract mainstream people, not a > bunch of Linux users, people who enjoy reading circuit diagrams, > dribbling over the silk screen on a PCB, or have burns on their keyboard > from having dropped the soldering iron. These mainstream don't want to > see what is in the case. And even if they do, they need to head to the > technical section to get that.........
Probably got carried away by the fact that the software is still in development and we're designing our own base board and I am enthusiastic about both :-). No more naked pics then.. BTW still interested knowing which USB DACs work? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lintweaker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47485 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
