Hello Glifford, 

Well written and most of it agreed except for a couple of comments below. 


--- In [email protected], Glifford Menezes <gliff...@...> wrote:
>
> 
> > Remember, other makers launch a varient and
> > continue it for a couple of years atleast.
> >
> 
> You are in the Gulf.  You yourself have seen how every car changes
> each model year.  Take the popular Japanese ones for example.


Gliff when I made my statement, I did consider the cars in the gulf too. Camry 
changed in 2007 and is unchanged till 2009. I think same is with corolla. 
Accord too continues its model for many years. They launched a new version for 
2008, and 2009 remains the same. Same goes with the Nissan Altima I'm so much 
in Love with. The Civic has its lovely design for a long time with the only 
exception that they've changed its lighting. 


> Even in bikes you get to see that.
> Just look at the litre-class SBK range.  Every single year there is
> something new.

Wrong, they mostly go the car makers way too. The difference with them is that 
they come out with new stuff and they believe in perfection rather than trying 
use customers for testing and feedback. They're in most cases confident that 
their new technology is good enough to go a couple of years and in the mean 
while they could come up with something better and use the time for testing it 
themselves.



> 
> The Octavia and Laura.  What are those?  Octavia only again!
> 
> Corolla and Corolla Altis.  Corolla again.
> 
> Accent and Verna.  Accent again.
> 
> Santro and i10.  Versions of the Atos again.
> 
> Ikon and Fiesta.  Fiesta again.


Agree though it does not quite happen here. 


> 
> If someone like Honda stops the City twice and introduces an all new
> City.  Does someone complain?  Sameer Shisodia has the first
> generation City.  Does he feel cheated?  He loves it!

This took time. Didnt happen year after year. My point is that they need to 
give the market sometime. 


> 
>
> 
> > They ought to be more considerate to existing customers.
> 
> They were considerate to you when you bought it.  Offered you the best
> they (reliably) could at the price you could afford at the moment.  


Agree

>If someone wants to buy something today why should they offer depreciated
> old, out dated technology today?

My friend, sometime is all i said ... didnt ask them to keep the stuff the same 
for life. Theres a huge gap between 2002 and 2009. 



> 
> Why sell something old and out dated manufactured from very
> depreciated machines at same or higher prices?  Who is cheating whom
> then?

As I said earlier, upgrade and sell your product, but atleast give the current 
gen products a couple of years breathing time while you perfect on the new 
technology you come up with. Its good for you, its good for your customers, and 
thats what the rest of the makers do as I pointed above. 

Also the word cheating is too strong for this discussion. I did call it 
disappointing, but is by no means cheating. 

Rest of your comments, some contradict with what i said in this post; rest I 
agree with. 

Regards, 
Eric

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