On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:56:23 -0600, Chris Hurd wrote:

[....]
>This may enrage some people, but I'll stand by it firmly: a close
>analogy of Sony and Canon is the PC and Mac thing. Sony is
>huge, sells more, has deep market penetration. Sony is the "PC"
>of the camcorder world. Canon is much smaller, does not have
>the market share that Sony does, has a product that behaves
>differently from Sony's, and has a devoted base of loyal
>users who tend to get kind of fanatical about their cameras.
>Canon is the "Mac" of the camcorder world.
>
>Anybody want to argue that one?

Oooops!!!!
REAL bad anology!
Or, maybe a very appropriate one...;-)
Never could figure out why people pay too much for
inflexible, un-updatable, slow-for-video systems
like the Macs - but point out the shortcomings, and
watch the fur fly! ;-) People LIKE plastic goo on
the cases and good salesmanship - more than function
and flexibility...! Heck, I even had one person try
to argue that the MUCH longer render times for FCP
on a Mac compared with Premiere on even a cheap PC
was an advantage (gave him time to think...! ;-).
Talk 'bout religion! ;-) Brand-loyalty is often
not "dentable" by such things as logic and
practicality - the choice is often based more on
emotional appeal than reason...;-) Thus, white
Canon cases and warm-colored pictures (with
"halos" - what could be more angelic? ;-), and
green-and-white plastic case-goo and neat tiny
cubes (never mind that a raft of peripherals must
then be attached, 'cuz the case is too small...;-)
sell better than having cameras with sharper
images, less stairstepping, and better sound - and
computers with lotsa open bays and slots, easily
upgraded CPUs, actual handy floppy drives that
come WITH the computer and are accessible from
the front, not the back, "real" CD drawers instead
of slots), etc...;-)
But, I rant......;-)