Product Watch: Creative Realigning Line

We've all been talking about the new offerings from the fruity side of the street and the impact on Creative's product lines. We may even have seen something of a response from Creative in the pricing of its products as offered by a large, well-known reseller of theirs (J&R Music). What's next?
Well, I happened to click on the link for Nomad World by accident and saw the MuVo Slim now described as being offered in 28MB and 256MB models. Gi'ven that the MuVo Slim was offered in 256MB and 52MB models up until this announcement, could this be a sign of the impending release of the GB Zen Micro? Personally, I hope not.
I see the MuVo Slim as one of the MP3 players that Creative needs to keep. Why? Because it is easily the most stylish and therefore potentially cool (to be hyped) players they've got. A replaceable battey shared with other models means that there's some economy of scale that can help keep prices down in some areas. Plus the Muvo Slim points the way to the form factor that is going to be greatly desired in another 5 years or so as flash memory density goes up while the cost of the parts go down. A 5GB flash-based player will be able to appeal to a wider audience, especially those interested in having a very acti've physical lifestyle (since hard-dri've based players don't have very long li'ves when subjected to repeated and harsh shocks).
Creative, please rethink reducing the capacity of the MuVo Slim. The M-Slim should come in 256MB, 52MB, and GB capacities at least (although you could ditch the 256MB option and just have 52MB / GB). If you are ditching models, get rid of the gum-pack (TX/NX/N200) and square patty shaped MuVos (X-Trainer, and MuVo2 modets.

The link for the Creative registration that's on your desktop doesn't tie into the soundcard drivers in any way. It sounds more like a coincidence, unless you deleted other files aswell.
Deleting the shortcut doesn't delete the registration files, it'll only delete that shortcut, but it doesn't affect any other files.
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Some constructi've critisism.
Creative's archille's heel is that they always come up with crappy names for their mp3 products.
Why does Creative always come up with names for their products that are hard to remember and easily confused with other products that they have?
Why can't they just come up with a name that is short and sweet, distinct and easy to remember?The longer the name, the easier it is to forget.
That's a big reason that the iPod is so huge. The name is so easy to remember and its catchy. There is a certain flow to the term "apple ipod" and it sticks in people's heads. It makes marketing very easy.
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ANYWAY its so obvious...
"Zen" *is* a great base for a name. "Vision" makes sense too because of what the product does.
But Creative Zen Vision? Yeah its a logical name but it has absolutely *no* ring to it. No flow. It's hard to remember. it makes marketing pretty difficult if people can't remember what the product is called.
Creative Zen Vision:M is even worse. That's an even bigger mouthful. And what does the M stand for anyway? It's not memorable.
What's easier to say? What's easier to remember? "Apple iPod" or "Creative Zen Vision:M"?
So... instead of Creative Zen Vision:M..
Why not call it simply.. Creative ViZen?
Sounds like... Creative Vision.. that would be pretty catchy I think... Creative ViZen.
Something easy for ppl to remember. After all, "creative vision" is a common phrase that everybody has heard hundreds of times. By putting the "Zen" name in it.. i think that would sell alot better than a mouthful / hard to remember name. Why didn't anyone at Creative think of it's It's so obvious :P
And models can be differentiated with a number to signify gigabytes so this first one can be called the...Creative ViZen:30
If the next one is 60 gigabytes then obviously it would be called the.. Creative ViZen:60
People would know the capacity of the product without having to read the fine print! Now wouldn't that be amazing?
Anyway, their naming strategy needs work.
A possible conversation:
"hey what do u have there?""a Creative Zen Vision:M""uh.. creative zen.. whats that?""its like an iPod but better""oh its a knock off"
this would sound better:
"hey what do u have there?""a Creative ViZen""oh i've heard of those.. can i see?"
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Creative ViZen is more descripti've, catchy and easily attached to the name Creative.
If you're just some person in the street and hear the word "zen", you think of some buddist meditation thing.
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Creative Zen Vision:M is 7 syllables for crying out loud and it doesn't even tell the casual person on the street what it is. It's clunky and cumbersome. No flow.
Its also confusing giving 2 products the same name. There is the portable media player and this mp3 player. They just put a :M at the end which means nothing to Joe Blow. What the...
I am actually more informed that the average person. Ever been to their store/buying page? zen touch zen sleek zen nano zen touch zen etc... and they all look the same. I was confused and I can imagine Joe Blow going to the online store and seeing all this zen stuff, getting all confused and saying "to heck with it, i'll just get an ipod, at least i'll know what i'm getting" Why confuse the customer? Not good.
Even though Zen Micro is a good name, it doesn't say anything... apart from being a small "zen"
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I remember when all they had were sound cards and the nomad, or nomad jukebox and that was years before the iPod. I was lookin for drivers for my sound card and i see a "nomad" thing mentioned. I didn't know what it was until i looked at the product page then forgot about it.
Even then, they just called everything nomad, which is an odd word and it starts with the word "no"
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Creative sure knows how to shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to naming their mp3 products :P
I heard something about marketing once and it was this. You can have the best product the world has ever seen but if you don't have a marketing strategy, you have nothing.
Just look at AMD. They are where they are because they had a plan since 999 when they came out with the Athlon cpu. "Athlon" didn't mean anything but that was ok because it was short, sweet and it was *their* word. Now "Athlon" means something and when you hear that word, you think of AMD.
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See what AMD does? They *invent* nice words. Athlon, Opteron, Sempron.
With the Zen Vision:M, Creative is giving more bang for the buck than Apple, but "Zen" and "Vision" are ordinary words that will never be glued to Creative the way that Athlon is glued to AMD or the way iPod is glued to Apple.
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