Rob Studdert wrote:
On 17 Apr 2005 at 21:02, mike wilson wrote:
You won't need to, because they just will not come back. Most of the people I know who have digital cameras print less than 1% of their pictures. Once the new model sales dry up - as they will, because most people are happy with their camera and do not intend spending that sort of big money again - the market is going to be in real trouble. Before they laid down a couple of hundred for ther new toy, the most they had previously spent was 30~40. As a non-essential purchase, they do not anticipate doing it again - at least not in a hurry. They might be morons but they know poor value when it clobbers them in the wallet. 8-)
I don't know, at the rate people around here upgrade mobile phones for little perceived or actual value it makes me wonder if people now (with too much disposable cash) don't expect to continuously "upgrade" be it advantageous or not.
Agree completely, in that we see that behaviour here and undoubtely in other "westernised" countries. But there must come a point where rising cost of manufacture/promotion of all this junk meets the disposable income ceiling and sales fall. Once that happens, the free market model collapses as it depends, in its entirety, on growth.
mike
