Creative poops out Vivid range of speakers
posted March 9th 2005 2:03PM
Available in the same awe-inducing colors as
the Zen Micro, Creative's Vivid speakers of colorosity are finally coming to market. It looks like they will
offer two different sizes, a single-speaker design as we
reported earlier as well as the dual-speaker design shown
here. How do they sound? Who knows, but it seems Creative picked up on something amazing: "We found that
customers really liked the idea of having a choice of 10 colors," said Geraldine Lee, European business manager for
Creative. "It was easy to extend this thinking to other products." We'd love to be in that meeting.
"Jim, I think we should offer these speaker in multiple colors! 10 colors! Let people choose!" Heads
explode, minds are blown, marketers get promotions, someone buys a lime-green set of speakers.
The problem with multiple colors is supply chain management. What usually happens is one or two colors turn out to be turkeys no one wants to buy. So the store eventually ends up with a stock of "color X" product that no one wants. Previously retailers did everything in their power to make mfgrs only offer one color, and are only now letting up because of Apple's success with the iPod.
What's with all these mini-stereo systems? Apparently people are just scrambling to find a place to plug in their MP3 players. I mean, who doesn't have at least one *real* stereo and a bunch of PC speakers in any place they might want to hear music already?
Screw the mp3 players these would look great with my mac mini....
the zen micro doesnt have a line-out, do these speakers plug into the headphone port?
They plug into your line-in and reverse engineer the music for you.
Apple figured out that colors suck a long time ago with the death of the clamshell iBook.
Hell, I even want my motorcycle to be clear.
...and then they introduced the iPod Mini. :-P
Whatever happened to Creative making 10 faceplates for their I-trigues?
"pooped" them out?
Nice headline.
so when will these speakers be available to buy? and what is the rrp?