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Old 10-04-2024, 06:45 AM
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I asked The Villages Golf Cart about why no Yamaha Lithium carts? They said that Yamaha knows they own the gas cart market and feel that a Yamaha Lithium cart would only compete / cut into their gas cart sales. Sounded like a plausible answer to me.
Kodak invented the first digital camera but didn’t sell it because it would cut into their very profitable film sales. Market place has a history of companies of not bringing out products that would cut into their current business. Most of them lost their number 1 status and, in some cases, went into bankruptcy.
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