[rollei_list] Re: Grossly OT: Cornering the Silver Market

I remember when Radio Shack was going to dominate the home computer  
market. How they were able to survive that disaster is anyone's guess.

Slobodan Dimitrov
Studio G-8, AGCC
http://sdimitrovphoto.com



On Jun 15, 2005, at 8:33 PM, Peter K. wrote:

> You're correct. The larger the business, in particular manufacturing
> businesses, the more difficult it is to shift to your focus and  
> target the
> correct market. One of the major reasons is large corporations use few
> "focus groups" and base their marketing on these groups.
> These tactics often cause companies to add new products, and rather  
> than
> change the ones they let them die an agonizing death. The more  
> successful
> companies change the product and move quickly. Two examples, Kodak  
> went from
> zero to #2 in digital cameras in a few years. They had 13% US  
> market share
> in 2003 and grew to 18% in 2004. Not bad when you consider the culture
> change that had to be made. However, the lagging sales of other  
> products
> drag down on profits. So film is slowly dying.
> Canon on the other hand has suspended all development for high-end  
> film SLRs
> and has concentrated on digital SLRs. Plus they realized that they  
> key was
> to develop their own image processor so they would not rely ona 3rd  
> party as
> does Nikon and others. Today Canon is the top selling digital SLR,  
> and among
> the top 3 in digital P&S cameras.
>  Peter K
>  -----
>
>  On 6/15/05, Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> At 04:06 PM 6/15/05 -0700, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>>
>>> Right next to the two hoarding morons from Texas.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I suspect you are referring to the Bunker brothers, who attempted  
>> to do a
>> Jay Gould clamp on the US silver market in 1980. One of them went  
>> to my
>> college, I believe, Washington & Lee, but some time before I  
>> blackened the
>> reputation of that institution forever. =20
>>
>> They were hardly morons. They were simply adventurists who got  
>> caught out.
>> Most family fortunes begin with some sort of larceny, in spirit if  
>> not de
>> jure, and I have only the highest regard for a successful thief  
>> though,
>> alas, I do not obtain regular employment from them, as my job as a  
>> crimnal
>> defense attorney mandates that I only obtain employment from the  
>> allegedly
>> unsuccessful ones ...
>>
>> Now, if I would start playing golf, an unlikely development as I  
>> regard
>> golf as the only negative product of the Scottish Highlands,  
>> mayhaps I
>> would get more business from the descendants of these Robber Barons.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20
>> Cha robh b=E0s fir gun ghr=E0s fir!
>>
>> NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505
>>
>>
>>
>> -
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