If the users can't use the old lenses, they have to buy new, so use the
camera sales to bolster lens sales.
The problem with that view is that 1.) You have to have the new lenses
to sell them, and 2.) You have
to assume that you'll lose sales on New lenses to the Old. The dynamics
are much more complicated
than the naive assumptions, but that's the way marketing usually works.
I've seen so many marketing
studies that were so wide of the mark that you wonder how the companies
doing the study manage to
stay in business. Probably because they're confidential.
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, P. J. Alling wrote:
that the compatibility was abandoned anywhere except late in the
project as a marketing decision.
I can't understand how abandonment of a feature can be a marketing
decision. Can you enlighten the fool?
Kostas
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