Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >