Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/07

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Subject: [Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Fri Mar 7 06:35:16 2008
References: <00f301c88012$acd58460$06808d20$@net> <C3F6D61B.15E98%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk>

It did kill Osbourne.  It completely cut off sales revenue.

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Steve Unsworth
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:23 AM
To: LUG Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future

Didn't Osbourne do that in the PC field? That would be the Osbourne that are
no long around of course.

Steve


On 7/3/08 05:18, "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:

> One of the things you NEVER do is to announce a new, upgraded product when
> you have inventories of the older product.  It only cannibalizes the old
> product and forestalls the purchase of the older model, as buyers wait for
> the new one to become available.  Worse yet, if there is no price hike in
> the newer model..... it is suicide to do otherwise.



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In reply to: Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future)
Message from lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future)