hobot said:
Whch logic to apply a long lasting component the produce may dissapear of more obsolete that continues in production?
I have a seventy-five-pound anvil that was bought new back in the '60s by my father. It works exactly the same from day one, just the same as anvils have since the Iron Age began. I fully expect my great-great-grandchildren to be able to use this same anvil. And yet, who buys an anvil nowdays? Could you get a startup company to fly by making anvils?
With today's fickle buying public, your marketing department better be pretty darned tight with what the world might want tomorrow, know where it's going next month, and probably even steer the market the way they want it to go.
The more I'm involved with the semiconductor market, the more I hate computers! I think I could safely suggest that anyone that gets involved with things like Nortons, wooden boats, and arrow heads, has a touch of the Luddite in him.