Title: What are examples of products in their decline stage? - Quora
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What are examples of products in their decline stage?
Content: Answered 4 years ago · Author has 1.9K answers and 3.5M answer views
Products in decline stage are those who still make money, but the market (demand for the product) is not increasing, therefore investment in the product is none to minimal, but there are still enough sales to keep the product around. A great example are mainframes. No one is entering the market, it is smaller every year, but it brings a lot of money to IBM, so they keep selling them with the minimum product investment possible. Other examples include dial-up Internet (still the only way to connect in some areas), landline phones, cassette recorders, and to an extent, cable TV. 32.9K views
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Glen McMillian
, farmers know how to buy parts so as to save their money. Answered 4 years ago · Author has 1.7K answers and 5.8M answer views
Consumer goods such as televisions and shoes used to be made to be repairable. This is no longer true as a general rule. It’s usually cheaper to just buy new. The entire class of cheap but REPAIRABLE consumer goods is mostly on the way out, or in decline, which means about the same thing. Some products are still available, and likely always will be available, but the market for them has shrunk to a tiny fraction of the market in times gone by.