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Monopoly money
I don’t normally have much of a problem with single source supply. It allows a distributor/seller to specialise and concentrate on the product, however when that exclusivity turns into a monopoly because the product is popular, there is always the danger the supplier will use that monopoly to squeeze their customers’ last shekel from their hands, just because they can.
This is bad for the customer of course but also for the manufacturer because the product gets a bad name which results in reduced sales of ‘it’ and by association the manufacturer’s subsequent products.
Where monopolies are concerned they don’t come much bigger or longer standing than AT&T in the US and O2 in the UK.
Moan, Moan, Moan
Yes I know, I get a bit moany sometimes but there is so much to bitch about out there what with the artificially drummed up financial crisis (self fulfilling prophesy) and all the lay-offs etc, it is difficult to see the positive (or at least comment on them).
So, on a positive note, I am currently really enjoying a secondment to the new video and audio studios we have built at work. I was given the opportunity by management to work there for a few months to help finish the project and learn what I could from the new Studio Manager, a very experienced chap from the UK TV industry.
It is a very new facility and we are all learning what and how to make, but we have done live bands, cookery, scantily clad models and celeb interviews. Not bad for a little studio. I guess it helps to have a few national newspapers upstairs!
If I can, I’ll post some pictures of the studios later.
Off to work now – wonder who we’ll have in today?