Goodsounds;450255 Wrote: > Tired Legs - Good comments, I agree. Same to Moonbase (relative to his > general comments). > > Similar comments describing a seemingly disinterested attitude > concerning the Joe Sixpack market segment (the largest portion of the > potential market, by the way) have been made before. And, I recall, were > also responded to by saying that they are "making the installation > process easier", which is NOT the point. > > It may be that the company doesn't share the view or doesn't want to > change its direction. > Maybe Joe Sixpack isn't the target user for the current release ?
I've never seen Logitech stating that they are targeting Joe Sixpack and remember just because there are a lot of them it doesn't mean that they are easy to reach. Joe Sixpack might not be the easiest way to increase the economical result for Logitech. To reach Joe Sixpack, a lot of other things might be needed than just making the Squeezebox products easier to use. IMHO, there are two ways Joe Sixpack would be able to use the Squeezebox products: - If he/she only used streaming services and it was very easy to connect it to the network, it probably needs to be bundled with a pre-configured router to make this possible. - If Logitech solved the whole ripping part to make it easy to make that CD available to the Squeezebox system You have to remember that Joe Sixpack is used to turning on the radio or to buy a CD and insert it into a CD player, where the CD player or radio just needs to be plugged into the wall to work. As long as it's harder than this to use the Squeezebox products, I'm pretty sure Joe Sixpack will prefer his radio or CD player. We are not talking about someone that knows what a MP3 file is and we are not talking about someone that used to work with a computer or wireless networks. I think this type of user can be very hard to reach so Logitech probably have to do this in steps. To me, the first logical step seems to make it possible for users that at least are familiar with MP3 files to use the products and to make it easier for users that only use online streaming services to setup the device in the network. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66745 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
