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Subject: [OM] Re: New Camera Maker
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:33:46 -0500
To me, GE's press release is yet another signal that low-end digicams
are moving toward being a simple commodity.  If memory serves, someone
on this list predicted this a while back.

ScottGee1

On 2/13/07, Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> General Electric has decided to make cameras under a subsidiary
> called General Imaging in Torrance, CA.  They have hired some
> interesting people, former president of Olympus, former global sales
> head of Arcsoft and North American sales for Samsung and Ricoh, and
> the designer of the Sony Walkman, Sony Vaio, and Olympus Stylus cameras.
>
> http://www.steves-digicams.com/diginews.html#ge_digicam
>
> Sounds like they will be doing digicams where the low margin
> competition is already chewing things up. Weird.
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA

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