"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- GBS
Plus the biggest profits.
tOM
On 12 Nov 2005 at 9:30,
Mark Dapoz <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Stephen Scharf wrote:
> >
> > No, it's clear to me that OLy has no meaningful VOC...if they did,
> > they wouldn't keep putting out mildly evolutionary products that
> > still don't address the complaints of thier customers.
>
> Imagine what the OM-1, Pen F, or XA would have looked like had it
> been designed solely to the customer specifications of the time.
> Innovation rarely comes from customer input, it requires a visionary
> who understands what people will want, not what they currently want.
> Apple's Ipod comes to mind. Of course innovation doesn't guarantee
> market leadership, marketing and affordable products usually takes
> care of that. I'm happy to see that Olympus continues to be
> innovative and doesn't just follow what everyone else is doing. I
> just hope they sell enough products to allow them to continue doing
> this.
> -mark
>
>
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