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 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.
World population: 6,525,170,264 (July 2006 est.)
This website (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm) gives an
English-speaking Internet users estimate of 327,084,785.
1 percent market penetration is 3,270,847 people, who buy an
guesstimated average of 2.5 Squeezeboxes each, maybe for a total price
of $600 or so (sales and freebies and what have you).
That's $1,962,508,200. In other words, products can be successful
without anyone you know buying them.
--
"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,
So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional
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.
I was a little surprised that I couldn't get anyone else interested in
one, since my circle of friends and acquaintances includes a lot of
engineers and programmers, as well as music lovers. I'm admittedly no
salesman, but I would have thought I would have gotten _someone_ else
to get one.
Part of this is due to the fact that many of these people perceived the
thing as fussy to set up. This seems like the biggest issue to me.
And let's face it: lots of the people I'm concerned with do have ipods,
so the problem isn't that they don't like computer based audio products.
I have the same experience. I inspired only one colleague to buy one. I
even loaned my SB1 to the others but they weren't sufficiently
interested. Funny thing is that quite a few of them are using
slimserver/softsqueeze to play their music, but they don't get the hardware.
I guess a factor is that many of them live in small houses, where
playing music on your PC is feasable. In a bigger house like mine
(Europe standards) an multi-SB3 setup is really very nice.
Regards,
Peter
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