Re: [Avid-L2] Re: And when the advertising dollars leave?

good argument. but, Sony has a customer base of lets say a billion people.. ok. Avid has a customer base of maybe 50k. maybe even 100k people. that's a big difference. if 1%of the previous customers buy a competing product, to Sony, that's a scratch on the surface, to Avid, that means it's time to worry.

And i like the AMA stuff, but that's not innovative, that's keeping up. if that makes you say Wow, great. to me, that's not anything more than another I/O function. just like adding OPenEXR to your export options. it's great to have it, but really, doesn't make me stand up and become an avangelist, or want to tell everyone about it... it's just not there.

Avid is like a sinking ship. handing out buckets to help bailout the water.. after we already have a bucket... "but this one is bigger, it's still round, and deep, but you can bail more water with this one.. yes. but we're still sinking.. doesn't matter, just keeping dumping out the water." instead of fixing the hole in the boat.

Marc Fisher
cav2ya@gmail.com

On Jan 10, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Nigel Gourley wrote:

> While you might be right you can look the other way and say the are reducing
> workforce in response to a changing market which is more online sales and
> less personal relationships. It might be that you don't need to permanently
> innovate to be successful and make products people want. Sony did very well
> for many years copying and improving TV hardware ultimately to the detriment
> of GVG and Ampex. They did a mix of innovate and improve.
>
> Major things do happen, you may not want them but that doesn't mean no one
> does.. AMA springs to mind. You could argue the same about many other bits
> of software they all compete though. Take compression software, there are
> probably half a dozen options I'm not sure any make me go WOW but I still
> buy them! Maybe nothing in edit software is going to give you the WOW factor
> anymore.
>
> Just an alternative viewpoint!
>
> N
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Marc Fisher
> Sent: 10 January 2010 20:19
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: And when the advertising dollars leave?
>
> i think he was referring to the stereotype he had mentioned earlier, that
> the Dutch are cheap. Stereotypically, the Jewish are too. so Bouke, then
> would be twice as bad at being cheap. if you believe stereotypes.
>
> i think the writing is on the wall.. with avid laying off (i heard) 40% of
> their workforce.. they no longer innovate and lead the way, they're more
> about keeping up with the Jones'. No matter which avid product you use. when
> was the last time something Major happened to it? something that made you
> say Wow! i need to get my hands on that...?
>
> marc
>
> On Jan 10, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 10, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Bouke wrote:
> >
> > > Bouke (True Dutch, grandson of a Jew and married to one.)
> >
> > I say:
> >
> > I'm glad to hear it, but I don't see the relevance. ;)
> >
> > Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> > NBC Today Show, New York
> >
> >
>
> Marc Fisher
> cav2ya@sbcglobal.net
>
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