on 4/18/03 8:12 PM, Bob Fenstermacher at bobfenstermacher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>
>
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>> For those of you who think that film will give way to digital in the
>> forseeable future,
>
> I thought I'd add my 2 cents in to this worrysome possibility.
>
> One of the biggest factors in a successfull business is having a product
> that is used up by the comsumers and is constantly in need of replacing.
> For example, food, drugs, medicine, supplements, fuel and gasoline, glasses
> and contacts, soft drinks, etc, etc, etc.
>
> The very idea of planned obsolesence was based on the need for products to
> be resold to consumers -can't make money on a product that lasts forever.
>
> Well, except for advances in technology like digital will encompass, people
> do not need to buy a new digital camera every year or every five years...no
> need to buy more digital space from a camera manufacturer, just buy another
> disk and download the images you like and stick em in a box to be inserted
> in your computer whenever.
>
> On the other hand, our major film manufacturers have a perfect product. It's
> used up almost immediately and voila, you buy more film.
>
> It seems to me, that those manufacturers should have a vested interest in
> keeping film camera manufacturers in business.
>
> Perhaps they need to make this connection and keep their profit centers
> (film) alive.
>
> Bob Fenstermacher
>
>
>
But Apple HP Sony etc have NO interest in keeping film alive...remember
Polaroid?
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