Almost an unfair advantage for BT. What is stopping them from threatening stores with no Marlboros, Camels, Winstons, etc. unless they sell their respective ecigs?
Yup, if the FDA regs are struck down and there is still a striving open system market in 2018, they will likely dominate that market too imo. Ditto with the pod mod system.
It's an estimate by Bonnie Herzog of Wells Fargo, probably the leading security analyst for the tobacco and ecig market.
Yes, now imagine that in order to release a new computer related product you had to perform hundreds of thousands of dollars in psychological testing(on top of R&D costs) in order to prove that your computer product was not likely to appeal to non computer users, and not likely to encourage computer users to continue using computers.
Oh I don't doubt that there will be significant innovation in the market going forward. Progress will be uneven and there will be temporary setbacks, but innovation will continue. I also have no doubt that BT will have a large segment of the market in the future regardless of what direction this innovation takes us.There are tons of new entries into the market, going on behind the scenes, including Nerudia w/ pharma grade ecig products, and other companies working on ecig models that will only work w/synthetic nicotine, and working on sythetic nic which is not made from tobacco, etc.
Vaping is not going to go away. It is going to grow very big, but it will be more highly technological and scientifically vetted, and ecigs will have touch screens and such. I'm looking forward to it.
As much as everybody in the "hobby" sector thinks we have sophisticated products now, I think most of these products are kinda like dinosaurs in a way, clunky and fiddly and really pretty elementary.
Just wait.
Yeah of course cost, but i believe the other factors are more important so long as cost is not ridiculous. I don't think the majority of smokers will ever diy and rebuild coils, rewick, etc .... regardless of savings.
sorry i'm not quite sure what you are saying here. I agreed that cost is a factor, but my main point was that in order for the number of vapors to surpass smokers, cost is not the only or even primary issue. The majority of smokers don't find cigalikes satisfying, and they will never deal with the time and effort it takes to diy, rebuild and fiddle with the devices, as enthusiasts do. I am speaking from first hand experience with friends and family. I have pointed many unsatisfied cigalike users in the direction of our style of vaping. They just don't want to deal with the hassle.
Fair enough, we have had different experiences. Perhaps it has to do with the cost of cigarettes where we lived. A pack of cigarettes in NYC is $ 14. Any ecig is cheaper, cigalike or otherwise. The vast majority of smokers have tried vaping, most didn't stick with it. I don't believe cost was the reason for most of them, but perhaps i'm wrong. I have yet to speak to anyone who has told me they don't vape because it costs too much compared to smoking.
Yeah that explains somewhat why our experiences have been so different, and also partially why smoking rates are higher in the southeast of the country compared to the northeast.
