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Originally Posted by NatCh
No of course it wasn't! But they did make a bunch of money off the switchover. If they liked the taste of it, and didn't want to go back to only making money on plain, old-fashioned, first-time purchases ... well, can't really blame them for the sentiment.
But the fact that they didn't set out to make a bunch of money on the cassette to CD switch-over doesn't make it "okay" to try to force their customer base to constantly re-purchase everything. I think that's what Lemurion was trying to get at.  |
That was my point. What I think happened was something more along the lines of once the industries had gone through those switch-overs (both of which had at least some benefit for the consumers -- especially in the case of the transition to DVD) that after the fact there were at least some people within those industries who thought it would be a very good idea to see if they could replicate the situation, especially given that sales did start declining.