It would appear counter-intuitive at first glance: why would a coffee shop try to make inroads in the home coffee machine market?
The company demonstrated its new $3,000 Surface Studio computer, a desktop machine marketed to professionals with a huge touchscreen that works with Microsoft's Surface Pen stylus.
The PSP machine, a challenger to Nintendo's longstanding grip on the hand-held video game machine market, will be sold as a "value pack" for $250 in the United States and for 300 Canadian dollars.
A notable example is the $10,000 Honeywell Kitchen Computer, a recipe-generating machine marketed in the 1960's that required of its users more than a passing acquaintance with computer programming.
Even if the high-end game machine market continues to grow, it still represents a rounding error for Dell.
In January, it bought its way into the U.S. voting machine market too, spending $24 million for moneylosing Global Election Systems.
Overall, the vending machine market has been slowing owing to competition from convenience stores, supermarkets and micro markets.
Diebold The best-known company in this niche is $2 billion (2002 projected sales) Canton, Ohio-based Diebold, which dominates the automated teller machine market with a 66% share in North America.
(ii) C m x : machine market price: (3) C m x = p a t · T local x · m, where p is the physical machine market price and a t is the amortization per unit time.
