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Originally posted by deanjo View PostServers are a niche market.
Embedded is a niche market.
Netbooks are a niche market.
Gamehand helds are a niche market.
Desktop use is not a niche market.
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For those not knowing ( aka you ) what a niche market is here the defintion:
A business that focuses on a niche market is addressing a need for a product or service that is not being addressed by mainstream providers.
See the point? "focus" and "mainstream providers". A company serving a niche market is the only one doing so since the others don't care or can't compete there.Last edited by Dragonlord; 13 February 2009, 08:01 PM.
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Originally posted by Dragonlord View PostIf this would be true you would not be able to write here a post. Seriously the Internet is one of the biggest assembly of computers users are working with in the entire world... and majority is running Un*x.
If this would be true only a handful of companies would specialize on them but anybody does. Cell phones for example are embedded systems and every man and his dog has a cell phone nowadays. If that's a niche market then I'm Santa Clause
Major players in the computer market ( HP, Acer and so forth ) sell netbooks. They would not if this would be a niche market.
NDS and PSP as the most sold handhelds ( even more than palmtops or PDAs how they are called correctly ). There are again major players ( HP and company ) in the PDA market so that's definitely no niche market.
The only point you got right in this post... you need to improveLast edited by deanjo; 13 February 2009, 08:08 PM.
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Have you ANY idea about economics man? Jesus long time since I heard such bullshit. A niche market is not defined by being a product only a customer ( aka B2C ) does buy it's a service either a customer ( B2C ) or another business ( B2B ) is acquiring. Hell there is even A2C and A2B and this is not even remotely niche. B2C is just a small part of the entire economic system.
Now about what is niche market and what not. A niche market is not something that is used for only one single purpose. You totally mixed up definitions there. A niche market is a specific service ( a real service or a product ) that one company ( or maybe a few more ) alone does provide. No main stream company is providing a similar service. This is not about how universal the service is it is about how many and who does provide this service that defines what is a niche market.
Please look up definitions ( or get in touch with "real" economics ) before honking out such bull and making a big fuzz.
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