Originally posted by ianmcnll:
What is lacking is your understanding of the arranger market.
Roland didn't sell well because of poor marketing, terrible promotion, and incorrect product placement...not because they make poor instruments, which they do not. Their arrangers are (or were) very competitive.
There are many Yamaha arranger players still using PSR-9000/8000/3000/2000/740 that are quite happy with their instrument and it's sound and reliability.
If you want to take a cheap shot at Yamaha, Genny, you better try harder than that...your point has no basis whatsoever.
Ian
If you are going to comment on my point, please understand it first and don�t misquote me.
I never said Roland made poor arrangers. In fact I said the opposite. �Roland is probably realizing that making long lasting products that persons could like for years is not the way to go�.
Yes there may be a few Yamaha players that still use PSR 9000 and other older ones but Yamaha still felt the need to continue with incremental upgrades to arrangers despite that fact. So it is not a significant number of persons that have those older arrangers.
No one is taking a cheap shot at Yamaha, you an I both know Yamaha�s business practices. It may be hard to swallow but it is the way they are able to stay in business. Other keyboard manufacturers had better start to follow if they want to do well.
The days of giving free OS upgrades need to be over. The need to creat a new product with those minor changes so that they could keep people buying and so that they could keep their name in the news as producing new products.