Re: OT: Digital camera sales in the USA

[Herb Chong]

this is what Sony, Canon, and Kodak are doing. there is expectation that 
sometime in the next 2 years, the number of brands still in the market will 
halve. it's also part of the reason that Panasonic and Sony are expected to 
enter the DSLR market while profit margins are still high compared to 
digital P&S cameras. prices are dropping faster than efficiencies because of 
volume. digital P&S models aren't in production long enough to accumulate 
much efficiencies.

Herb....
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From: "David Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: OT: Digital camera sales in the USA


In the case of digital camera manufacturers the quantities are  already 
huge and they're all major players, so it may be simply  capitalism doing 
its thing with what I'll call the "chicken" model.   People seem to be 
conditioned into buying mainly on price so if the  company has iron b*lls 
they just need to stick it out and hope their  competitors go broke first.