[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
It is an interesting question, but they have not released information in the past about it. Since the field is growing rapidly, releasing sales figures would show the competition just how much the market is worth and how fast it's growing. So for a privately held company (I assume this is the case) there's no reason to release sales figures. What I'm also interested in in sales growth. I'm sure there was a big increase after the introduction of the SB3 and there was another large increase after the New York Times article back in January. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
I've often wondered if you could extrapolate sales from the traffic on these forums (i.e. the number of posts about setup issues in a given period). There seemed (to me anyway) a clear increase in posts after both the points that Mark mentions... [TFIC for the avoidance of any doubt] -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
Siduhe Wrote: > I've often wondered if you could extrapolate sales from the traffic on > these forums (i.e. the number of posts about setup issues in a given > period). > > There seemed (to me anyway) a clear increase in posts after both the > points that Mark mentions... > > [TFIC for the avoidance of any doubt] I was wondering the same thing. I have quite elaborate server logs for downloads of my SuperDateTime plugin. But I'm not sure what percentage of new SB purchasers download my particular plugin. It also doesn't take into account people with multiple players. -Greg -- GoCubs GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
GoCubs Wrote: > I have quite elaborate server logs for downloads of my SuperDateTime > plugin. But I'm not sure what percentage of new SB purchasers download > my particular plugin. It also doesn't take into account people with > multiple players. SuperDateTime is the screen-saver running on my three SB2's, it's awesome! (So, how many times has that plugin been downloaded?) -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
mherger Wrote: > > > C'mon! Give us the numbers ;-). I'm just too lazy to do this for my > plugins. But sometimes it would be interesting to know. The only > numbers I > have is for SlimCD: as they produce the most traffic, they're always in > > the top 1 of the standard server statistics :-) > LOL. Alright! I believe I've included them in other posts in the past, but for the past 6months I'd say SuperDateTime averages 40+ downloads a week. When I release a new version it spikes higher. I use Urchin Web Analytics, which I believe is free. It offers quite a lot of features that are quite interesting to drill through. -Greg -- GoCubs GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
I'm a new Squeezebox 3 owner, having just purchased 2! So you can add that to your list. :D I ordered yesterday, received today, had one running in 15 minutes. It would have taken less if I had been able to figure out where the punctuation characters were when punching in my WPA key! I had been thinking about this purchase for many months, so I'd already been fooling around with SlimServer, making my first use of the Squeezebox pretty easy. I'll wait for a couple days before I get into the plugins. -- Dondo new Squeezebox owner - running Slimserver 6.22 with lots of FLAC Dondo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5753 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
As a completely random data point, my album art download script had been downloaded about 1,000 times in the past 12 months. I haven't done any analysis on unique IPs or anything -- just the raw data. -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
Plugin download count doesn't take into account how many people just use Slimserver without a Squeezebox, maybe just with Softsqueeze or other player. Not a bad metric, but I think there's too much variance. -- verbatone verbatone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3556 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
I'll throw out a number for you: 11,500 units sold to date. There are currently 5778 forum members. Figure most, but not all people registered here own a Squeezebox. Probably quite a few pre-sales types and many people who thought about but never ended up buying one. But then we also have a significant number of people who own multiple Squeezeboxes. Call it a wash: 5778 registered users = 5778 units. Take a WAG and estimate that only about 1/2 of all Squeezebox owners know about or care enough about the forums to have registered. So 2 x 5778 is approximately 11,500 units sold. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
An article dated 08/2004 (http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26806414) says that SD had sold "some 10,000 MP3 players". That was almost 2 years ago - 3 years after the launch of the slimp3 and long before the SB2 or 3 came out. Given all the recent publicity, the new models etc I'd be amazed if the current total was under 30k. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
If anybody needs space for mirroring their plugins I'm happy to help. My site gets 5GB of space and I'm using about 500MB. Also get 25GB traffic each month. All for less than $4 a month. As for figures, I'd estimate less than 25% of owners are forum partakers. I'd also figure at least 25% of members to have more than one SB. -- notanatheist notanatheist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
I have quite elaborate server logs for downloads of my SuperDateTime plugin. C'mon! Give us the numbers ;-). I'm just too lazy to do this for my plugins. But sometimes it would be interesting to know. The only numbers I have is for SlimCD: as they produce the most traffic, they're always in the top 1 of the standard server statistics :-) -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
On 6/2/06, JJZolx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...Take a WAG and estimate that only about 1/2 of all Squeezebox ownersknow about or care enough about the forums to have registered. So 2 x 5778 is approximately 11,500 units soldmy WAG would be more like 1/3 or even as low as 1/8.-- "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
Plugin download count doesn't take into account how many people just use Slimserver without a Squeezebox, maybe just with Softsqueeze or other player. Not a bad metric, but I think there's too much variance. Some more random data for the month of may '06: SlimCD: 535 MusicInfoSCR: 167 AlbumReview: 219 Biography:161 NoSetup: 38 SlimRemote: 420 But then there are those downloads which are cancelled. Take the SlimCD example: those 535 downloads generated "only" 31GB of traffic. Considering a download size of 100MB this number should be much higher. There must have been about 30% canceled downloads. Now, how much feedback do I get for these hundreds of downloads? A few dozens. SlimRemote? I know of about a hand full of users who at least tried to run it. All the other either just use it or threw it away immediately. What I want to say: only a minor number of users is here in the forums. Most users just run their Slimserver and Squeezeboxes without ever appearing here. Forum user count is as little a measure as plugin downloads. BTW: last night, when I got aware of the numbers for SlimCD, I had to check my web hoster's contract... SlimCD has been downloaded about 4300x since the first announcement about 12 months ago, generating some 300GB of traffic. Though this is a shared hosting environment I luckily enough don't have a traffic limit. SlimCD is generating about 97% of my domain's transfer volume :-) -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
Hi "Jack Coates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >my WAG would be more like 1/3 or even as low as 1/8. I agree. I have talked four friends into buying squeezeboxes. When they mail me for tech support, naturally I help them out, but also remind them that there's lots of useful help pages, email list, searchable forum, wiki, etc. None of them ever go anywhere near the website. It even took me a while to convince my work pal (software engineer) that it was a good idea to update to the latest release and get new firmware. I imagine there's a rather large percentage of users that receive the kit, download the software and just live with that version. Also, I imagine that quite a few people on the forum own more than 1 squeezebox. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
