Once again, the assumption that ONLY Yamaha could POSSIBLY be right, and a dizzying spin to justify it...

Do Korg or Roland 'pro' arrangers get their WS divisions in a tizzy? Do either of them forbid a 76, and force them to build 'home' quality arrangers?

The Big 3 go pretty much head to head in WS sales and competition for features the users of WS's want. But, apparently, Yamaha are the only ones SO insecure about their WS sales that they forbid the arranger division to make something that might offer a choice to a potential customer?

I doubt that...

I just believe Yamaha have chosen to only compete in one market after their ONE attempt to penetrate the 'pro' market the first time was such an abject failure. This was a failure to build the correct product for the market, NOT a failure in the market itself... IMO

It still exists... other companies base their entire strategy around this market, rather than the toy market (which is where you find the majority of Yamaha arrangers sold - toy departments in Wal-Marts and department stores). The truth is that none of the other arranger makers in the Big 3 make toys as well as arrangers (or, at least, a LOT less). Yamaha have their 'comfort zone', and straying outside it makes them very uncomfortable.

That's their decision, but it certainly, as Roland and Korg PROVE, does not disprove the existence of the market, nor it's profitability. Of course, it's a shrinking profitability, but with the global economy the way it is, I doubt Yamaha themselves will equal the sales of the T2 with the T3... Especially as how close the S900 comes to it's capabilities, at over $2000 less in price.

But anyway, whatever happened to good old fashioned capitalism? Whatever happened to 'kill the competition, and winner take all'? Whatever happened to the days when a company would make a product at a small loss, even, just to make a competitor go out of business?

As little as Yamaha would need to do to tool up a low production run of 76 S900's (that would put the Roland E60 under serious stress) and 76 T2/3's (which would give the G70 and PA2XPro some tight times), it just strikes me they are losing an opportunity to corner the ENTIRE arranger market, not just the 'home' one...

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