[slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2005-11-24 Thread seanadams
One of my favorite marketing trueisms is: "Your biggest competitor is the status quo". I.e. the umpteen other products out there aren't squat compared to the challenge of switching the masses over from old way of doing things - CD players etc. Hmmm that would be an interesting competitive compa

[slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2006-02-27 Thread rudholm
I intend to write comparison of the Squeezebox (I have a v2 wired and a v3 wireless) and the Sonos Zone Player 100. Sonos has a deal in which they are actually loaning equipment to "trusted friends" of selected customers. They extended this offer to a friend of mine who, naturally, sent them my

[slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2006-02-28 Thread tyler_durden
There is no competition, that's why! TD -- tyler_durden tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18495

[slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2006-02-28 Thread Jon
Turtle Beach had a good approach to this for their Audiotron ... rather than doing a direct comparison, they had a "top ten" list of the things that one should look for when purchasing a Digital Audio Receiver (see http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audiotron/comparisons.asp ... strangely,

[slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2006-02-28 Thread docbee
@rudholm: one of the major drawbacks of the sonos is that it - has a number of songs limit (40k) - is a closed source product (you get what they give you) - a strange user community (I don't like the "digital expert" attitude of the most prominent posters in their forum - as well as the way the so

[slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2006-03-01 Thread Jon
dean Wrote: > > http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_moreinfo.html > Yeah, that's what I meant :-) -- Jon Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sho

[slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2006-03-01 Thread oktup
dean Wrote: > > http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_moreinfo.html -"Internal antennas significantly reduce the distance that the player can be placed away from the wireless router and decrease the reliability of the connection the server."- Isn't this part a bit, um, inappropriate since the SB3 arri

[slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2006-03-01 Thread seanadams
oktup Wrote: > -"Internal antennas significantly reduce the distance that the player > can be placed away from the wireless router and decrease the > reliability of the connection the server."- > > Isn't this part a bit, um, inappropriate since the SB3 arrived? Or does > it deliberately show com

[slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2006-03-01 Thread rudholm
seanadams Wrote: > d'oh! yes we'll probably want to change that. :) Or you could simply append something about now "the increased performance of 802.11g, the vertical orientation of the SB3, and our dual-antenna design make this a non-issue in almost all situations" or somesuch. Perhaps a ment

Re: [slim] Re: Why doesn't Slim have a "VS the competition" page as part of it's sales propaganda?

2006-02-28 Thread dean blackketter
On Feb 28, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Jon wrote: Turtle Beach had a good approach to this for their Audiotron ... rather than doing a direct comparison, they had a "top ten" list of the things that one should look for when purchasing a Digital Audio Receiver (see http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/pr