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There's a more important constraint here: people change out their small consumer electronics MUCH faster. They buy new phones every year or two, arguably as fas
by neworbit 16y ago
There's a more important constraint here: people change out their small consumer electronics MUCH faster. They buy new phones every year or two, arguably as fast as Apple puts them out. Same was largely true for iPods. They don't replace their TVs very often.
- stcredzero 16y agoHow often do people buy set-top boxes in the $99-$250 range?
- benologist 16y agoAs often as they break or want and can afford a bigger one. I'd need a pretty compelling reason to buy a new TV even every five years.
- edash 16y agoHow many Walkman's or Discman's did you buy before the iPod came out? The market for portable music devices went up exponentially from the 90's to the mid-2000's when the iPod achieved mainstream status. I bought two iPods in three years before the iPhone made 'em useless. Consumer behavior isn't set in stone. Source: http://www.in-stat.com/press.asp?ID=1366&sku=IN0502148ID http://www.in-stat.com/press.asp?ID=1366&sku=IN0502148ID
- te_chris 16y agoOff topic, but the iPhone has done anything but make my iPod Classic useless. It's shown me what a brilliant and useful device my Classic is, that I can hold 120gigs of music in my pocket at all times. You have to be a music fan to really appreciate this, but for me I like that I have a smart phone and an iPod and, if my classic broke, I would certainly buy another one.
- stcredzero 16y agoRe-read my comment. It's set-top box not TV.
- benologist 16y agoOops, my bad. The rest of us were discussion televisions, not set-top boxes!
- jonhendry 16y agoHow many people have multiple game consoles? Quite a few, I'd imagine.