Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]peter, perhaps they will never have a large piece of the pie. perhaps they will remain a small company that produces and sells a high quality product at a high price to a small group of consumers. i'm sure that the morgan car company - to revert to the dreaded auto (no pun intended) analogy - cannont compete with honda and toyota in volume sales, but maybe it is not their goal to do so. i'd like to think that it is possible to run a company that makes enough money to sustain itself and whose chief goal is to produce a high quality, thus highly desirable product, which is entirely different from a company whose main objective is to produce income. guy >You have a good point. So it may seem reasonble that two markets will do. >The only question that comes to mind is, which one is actually the money >maker? I would imagine one must provide the lion's share of the income for >the company so it can sustain the other. If this were the case, it makes >sense. But if you then apply that to Leica, they would then need something >as was discussed earlier like Leica lens mfg. for other cameras and perhaps >a Minolta AF body to get into that larger piece of the pie to sustain the M >camera line. Nothing lasts forever, although in time my M3 may change that >saying . . . . . . . > >Peter K