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Tens of thousands. Their catalog looks like a good source for period movie props.
by bhickey 3y ago
Tens of thousands.
Their catalog looks like a good source for period movie props.
- gwern 3y agoIf I'm reading the middle correctly, that's exactly what happened: they got too used to selling period phones to Hollywood for a high price, and failed to note that while that business was wonderful, this is an intrinsically declining source of demand and that smartphones were busy wiping out their entire future market of 'period movies' (no one needs their prop phones for anything set in the past 20 years, soon, 30 years). They had good cashflow, could blind themselves to the transition because they were so old, leaped at what used to be opportunities but now were being dumped on them as suckers - and that's how they wind up being the last holders of the fast-depreciating hot potatoes.
- NikkiA 3y agoThe other problem with prop phones is that they don't actually need to work.
- yencabulator 3y agoOld phones are heavy, the prop department likely prefers a lightweight modern reproduction.