Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One footnote here - Olympus is not Leica - while the so-called "consumer products division" (cameras and voice recorders) is the tail that wags the dog in the public's mind, it is but a very small part of Olympus, which is a world leader in medical technology, microscopes, endoscopes, blood analyzers, etc. In some of those areas Olympus has market share that that resembles that of Microsoft. That said, they're not going to eat this kind of losses for very long. On 6/7/05 9:43 AM, "Bob Haight" <rhaightjr@yahoo.com> wrote: > Alot has been written here and elsewhere that the > digital market has matured and is saturated. > Innovation no longer drives the market for new sales. > Additionally, cameras in cellphones may take over the > mass market resulting in dramatically reduced sales to > stand alone camera makers such as Canon or Olympus. > The pro market is just too small to support a company > today. Additionally, most digital images are never > printed, did I read just 20% are? This has devastated > the processing end of the industry. All in all things > look very bleak for any company in the imaging > industry. The Olympus report is just the begining of > bad news for companies supposedly well positioned to > do well in the digital world. > To the Lug, >> >> Just like Leica, Olympus is also in financial >> trouble. >> > <http://db.riskwaters.com/public/showPage.html?page=281851> >> >> Regards, >> John >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >> more information >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information