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Originally Posted by u-Bob
Personally, I focus on what I control: my own business. The big existentialist questions of where "the industry is heading" don't concern me. There is no "industry"... There's only individuals. Individuals that innovate, help each other and do business with each other. And individuals that bitch all day about how X killed Y, about how the increase in availability of cheap A killed the business of those who used expensive B to create product C,...
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Ah, the "every man for himself" creed.
Good luck with that.
And thus we see why the "Industry" inevitably will stagnate. At some point a collective philosophy in some form or shape will need to be developed to protect the interests of the whole.
Otherwise it will simply be a revolving door of companies (except those who are big enough to survive), any of which can be targeted by regulatory bodies or subject to threats to the stability of their business. Every other major industry has learned the lesson that there is strength in numbers. Why can't this industry get it together?
Perhaps this is the wrong place to have this conversation, but the individualistic attitudes are telling as to why things are the way they are at present.