adamslim;148192 Wrote: > I don't want to do SD down, but theirs is a new market, and there are > several players who will enter it when it becomes more mainstream. > They are probably making OK profits now, but they could easily collapse > in the future to a large entrant with serious resources. > > <snip> > > Is $20m cheap? If Arcam bring out a branded audiophile > Transporter-beater in a year, and Sony a mass-market SB-beater, SD's > margins will be slim indeed. For $20m, with a risky future, I'd want > them to be making $2-3m profit this year or I wouldn't even look at > their business plan. I don't know how many SBs are being sold, but I > doubt their profits are much above that. Sadly, I think that probably sums up why technology is being created and made in the USA (and not in the UK) these days.
I don't think that SD or YouTube could ever have had the same success had they been UK based, and there are no UK based Googles or Logitechs to buy them either. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28862 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
