This phenomenon, some people say that it is the spirit of a century-old shop, some people say that it attaches importance to intellectual property rights, and some people say that it is marketing ability. These statements still cannot explain the reality that the digital camera industry is also dying in Europe and America. Because fundamentally speaking, this is a problem of industrial structure.
This involves the financial support, technical reserve, talent quality and economic model invested behind it.
The digital camera industry must first have strong capital support. Sony's imaging department has suffered huge losses for a long time. Although there are other factors, it also shows that the digital industry depends on funds. At that time, it was said that semiconductors were a stumbling block. Starting from Intel Corporation in the United States, the semiconductor businesses of Texas Instruments, AMD and Motorola are in jeopardy. Taiwan Province Province, Singapore and other places in Asia seek to set up fabs, but most of them fall on the road. However, due to the intervention of Batumi, China didn't even have a chance to stumble.
Japan's post-war economic take-off, Japan has acquired a lot of technology, trained a large number of talents, and accepted the industrial transfer from Europe and America. The quality of these skilled workers is not the same as that of the army of migrant workers, and their treatment is also very different. Accurately speaking, the basic education is higher than that of the third world, and the income and welfare level is lower than that of Europe and America.
Digital camera industry is not a simple electronic processing industry of a screwdriver or an electric soldering iron. There may be some processing plants all over the Philippines, Taiwan Province Province, Thailand and Suzhou, but the core is still in Japan. I remember reading an introduction to lens processing. Before final polishing, high-quality lens blanks should be left standing and annealed to relieve stress for months or even a year. We don't have the capital thickness, technical content and industrial base reserve in the middle.
Only in this way, Japan has accumulated a lot of funds and accepted the industrial transfer from Europe and the United States, so it has such a living mezzanine.
Even if this happens, there is no need to worry. In order to survive in the international community, the Japanese always strive to create wealth. Americans don't care, the British don't care, and China cares more than they do, but the opportunity for development hasn't come. Advocating supply-side reform now will increase opportunities for some industries and become world-class leading industries.
But the digital SLR may not get on this bus.
Because first of all, this is a narrow passage, and Japanese brands are walking a tightrope. Once they rush into a new force, they are likely to completely upset the plate. There has been a call for reform in the field of digital cameras, but Canon and Nikon want to reform their existing products. They are all worried.
Secondly, in this narrow circle, the hierarchy has solidified, and layers of patented technology and high-precision processing equipment have formed a towering threshold, limiting the latecomers. Only in brand-new fields, emerging countries will have a late-comer advantage and re-establish standards. To put it bluntly, it is uncertain whether there will be digital cameras in the future.