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To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (9388)4/23/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: Pacing The Cage   of 10072
 
>>My point is that the market will eventually split into three:<<

I believe they are proposing a fourth segment to the market, or an extension of your item 2 (middle).

This would consist of people that would take their pictures with a Clik! equipped digital camera, then since they don't have the equipment / knowhow / time / computer! (choose one) to print the pictures themselves, they take the Clik! disk ("Film") up to the corner drugstore to have the pictures printed by professionals.

This scenario has been discussed in the past and it makes a lot of sense for the following reasons:

1) Kodak / Fuji, etc. will not be willing to give up the film developing revenue to Digital cameras without a fight. They could embrace this format and continue to sell paper and 'processing equipment' under their own name.

2) It maintains the status quo. Ma and Pa Sixpack are comfortable with dropping the film off at the neighborhood drugstore, and getting prints of little Bubba back in an hour. They may not even own a computer, and if they do have one it is only used for playing Solitaire.

3) Not everyone that owns a computer will have a hard drive big enough to store all of their precious images on, or a printer that is capable of printing photo quality images. I believe that this is a large segment of the potential market myself.

-Ken
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