Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, The MP3 market was opened-up by Archos and Creative ................ Apple had the sense to wait a couple of years to fine-tune their creation and applied a great design and size. And then added the software and internet sale ................... they also had the bucks (access to capital) to make it work. B. On 20-jan-2006, at 14:30, Don Dory wrote: > Peter, > It is exactly the loss of control that is killing Kodak. Remember > when they > brought out a new format of film every 10 years or so? There was a > huge > profit potential as they filled the pipeline with products from > film to > special batteries to being the only game in town able to process > the film. > As manufacturing prowess has moved west Kodak has lost the digital > race as > well. > > Kodak is run largely by a group of executives that grew up when > Kodak did > control the market and they can not seem to break out of that > mindset. My > g*d they were all so proud of that bloated overpriced > underperforming dung > called the EasyShare One. Late to market and way underspecced for the > price. Another billion down the rathole and another 10,000 > employees laid > off. > > What the digital revolution has done is literally opened up what > photography > is. For a very short while yet, what we use to take visual records > is still > up in the air. Any company with a bright idea and access to > capital could > change photography. An example would be the ipod. Digital music > was making > slow inroads until Apple came out with a wonderful interface for > listening > to MP3 formatted musice: boom, the old way of buying and listening > to music > died. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 1/20/06, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote: >> >> Don Dory wrote: >> >>> Companies that will be standing include Canon, Sony, Panasonic, and >>> NIkon(maybe). There will be a huge confluence of photography with >> phones >>> and MP3 players for the masses. If you can't be in those markets >>> then >> you >>> will be out. >>> >>> Don >>> don.dory@gmail.com >> >> Unless you can do something about your costs and consciously seek >> to be a >> niche >> player. Which is Solms problem, they can do the second, but can't get >> their act >> round the first bit. Volume isn't everything, economics is. >> >> The trouble for all film camera makers is that control of their >> market is >> out of >> their hands to a large extent, being in the hands of the likes of >> Kodak >> and so >> on. That's why I welcome the arrival of Efke and so on and the >> desire to >> continue of Fuji and others. >> >> Peter Dzwig >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information