Subplot from the Freo win: has there been a safer bet (and I mean this in a literal sense; Tom Waterhouse is almost certainly framing a market) for an ineligible Brownlow 'winner' than Nathan Fyfe this year?
The dark, cavernous ground floor of the Halle St.-Pierre, a 19th-century metal-frame market near Sacré Coeur that has been a museum since 1986, provides a dreamlike setting for folk dolls from Mali, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Peru and the Ukraine.
"When we looked at the digital picture frame market, we were shocked at what we found," explains Chowdhury.
They realized there was opportunity to innovate in the digital picture frame market, which had not evolved with the times.
Aside from the recent surge in digital picture frames, there hasn't been too much innovation in the picture frame market.
On the upside, the team is focusing on the software, particularly the social opportunities that have largely been ignored in the digital photo frame market until now.
"I think changing a picture's frame is an ownership thing, a territorial way to put your mark on a painting," says Eli Wilner, a New York dealer widely credited with raising the American frame market's consciousness (not to mention prices).
Meanwhile, the digital picture frame market has filled with cheap products that haven't kept up with technology developments, like ubiquitous Wi-Fi, better photo quality, and higher resolutions, in order to instead chase ever-lower price points.
As a leader in the digital photo frame market, we are looking to provide a large demographic of product purchasers with a dedicated piece of artwork that reflects individual style.
To illustrate the power of framing free-market theories in this way, he shared an anecdote.
