Mafud wrote:
Whoops, a clear slip-up. What you may not know is California (clearly a
"group" by your definition), by itself outspends Sweden (and all but 8 of the
world's nations). Your statement is utterly false on it face.
REPLY:
Mafud, I do agree with many of the points you are mentioning. However, you seem to
have misunderstood my point. I've already argued fro that the US compensate to a large
extent for the poor with sheer numbers. However, the point I was trying to convey was
that a average group of americans (and by average I don't mean the rich part of
California, but a real US average - including afro-american gettos and latin-american
populations - but also white only suburbia) will include more people who are not real
consumer than a similar group from almost any other western country - and don't tell
me that those poor people are in line for an MZ-S.
Although the US is a big market, the EU (not Europe which is even larger) is a larger
market. It also sells more expensive cameras at expense of cheap ones. The balance
between expensive products and cheaper products in the same product category, tells a
lot about buying power of the population. When a certain population group buy more
expensive cameras relative to cheaper ones than another population group, you can then
assume that the former have higher bying power than the latter. The US is in this
respect between the EU and the third world reflecting that there are a larger number
of people who cannot afford anything but a cheap camera in the US compared to the EU.
[Here I assume that the camera buying habit in the western societies is pretty much
the same]
The US is a large market but the EU is larger in both absolute numbers and in the
percentage of profitable (high price) products. I also question the profitability of
the US market considering the price pressure on that market - a camera company may
not make much money from selling there.
Then theres the japanese market which is also very important.
To clear up; the American market is indeed very imortant but not as important as may
seems to think. So in this respect I give the one who started the "wake up" thread
right.
Pål
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