pfarrell Wrote: > I don't think the traffic on the forums is a reliable statistic. A fair point.
> How many people who buy it, connect it, and install the > software and are happy are likely to post? I don't know. Does anyone know sales numbers for the SB3? We could subtract the complaints that come up here from the total and take a guess. > Computers are not, yet, toasters. They take some setup. But we're not talking computers, we're talking Squeezeboxen. People buy the squeezebox thinking it will just work. I think someone said a few weeks ago ... I thought I was buying an audio product, not buying into a development project. > For the volumes that Slim sells SqueezeBoxes, adding features has costs > that would have to be passed on to me. Either in direct cost, or in > extended development times which means delay before I get cool stuff. So make the install wizards modular and you don't have to run them. Run the Developer's nightly version with all the cool features that are only half checked out. But I don't think usability features have to delay cool stuff. If Slim puts the staff into better testing and QA. Which they seem inclined to do, since they just hired in that area. > I just don't see a SqueezeBox ever being a mass market device no matter > what the remote looks like or how easy it is > for Slim Devices to fix broken WiFi routers. Perhaps not, but even *somewhat* more mass market might well drop the price a hundred. That would be nice. And might get more people working on cool features faster. > I'd love to know how many real world customers consider the SqueezeBox > and decide against it because the setup is too hard. Yeah, that would be a hard thing to find out unless Slim told us the results of their internal research (which seems unlikely). -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21736 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
