Neil1000 said:
what if Canon innovation is so poor it promotes camera sales? eg 1 buys canon, 1 buys Nikon,, 1 buys Sony, 1 buys Fuji and one buys Olympus , 5 buys BUT Canon guy is frustrated with poor innovation and buys another and then another new camera . Suddenly Canon has majority market share from poor innovation with no new buyers in the system.
Just thinking aloud = no data
So, the hypothesis is that Canon customers are so frustrated with Canon products,
that they buy three times as much hoping for a different result?
That seems like a bit of a stretch
More so, because it's Canon, and Canon has relatively slow release cycles. I mean, if you were a 7D or a 5D or 1D shooter, you'd have to buy 3 of the same camera, hoping the next one was magically better
I'd actually argue that this is more likely with Sony, than Canon.
The only way it would work with Canon is someone buys an 80D, goes oh shoot, buys a 5D, goes oh shoot, and then buys a 1DX. I kinda doubt it 8)
Where it DOES happen though is Canon glass. I've seen a whole lot of people who genuinely want to improve their photography (as a hobby) go through a cycle of buying progressively better lenses, and by the time they're "finished", they own everything from the $50 kit lens to a full set of 2.8 zooms and a handful of L primes -- and everything in between.