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Old 06-18-2007, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Erki View Post
Hey, it was my idea.(post #25)
Cool, I didn't see that. Great minds...

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Originally Posted by Silicon Toad
and hope you can drop the price enough to gain the market share needed to sell all the production?
IBM once famously estimated that there was a global market for maybe 6 computers, tops. But once the price of the product came down, whole new markets opened. We're now at the stage where many (most?) homes have a computer - so some of those ran out and got a second (or third) one! Automobiles too went from a rare and expensive luxury to the point where most households have multiple cars.

Your comment seems to imply that the market for your product is a closed system. But it almost certainly isn't...
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