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In a recent letter to Amazon shareholders, Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said consumer feedback didn’t lead to the development of Amazon’s popular Echo device.

“No customer was asking for Echo,” Bezos wrote. “This was definitely us wandering. Market research doesn’t help. If you had gone to a customer in 2013 and said ‘Would you like a black, always-on cylinder in your kitchen about the size of a Pringles can that you can talk to and ask questions, that also turns on your lights and plays music?’ I guarantee you they’d have looked at you strangely and said ‘No, thank you.’”

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The catalyst in the smart weapons market is the global pressure to reduce civilian causalities during conflict. The concept of carpet-bombing entire cities or an area increased civilian causalities. World War I resulted in around 7 million civilian deaths, and World War II resulted in around 50 million civilian deaths.

In the case of conventional bombs, the proximity to the target and the probability to neutralize the target were directly proportional to each other. This also exposed airborne assets to enemy fire, and the risk of airplanes being shot down was very high.

Market research can be a significant investment, but it’s one that many successful companies choose to make again and again.

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Hop on top of the latest insights from Packaged Facts, The Freedonia Group, and Freedonia Focus Reports. This week, analysts covered tax services, home organization trends, the race to 5G, the global motorcycle market, and more.  

The global motorcycle market – which includes not only internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcycles but ICE and/or electric mopeds,  scooters, and bikes – is expected to grow 4.4% per year through 2022, according to a white paper from The Freedonia Group. This marks an improvement over the anemic industry growth that characterized the period between 2012-2017.

An increase in the number of smartphones and connected devices and an increase in data traffic has led to congestion in the existing network, thus, increasing the demand for high bandwidth for various end-users.

This has paved the way for the network that can provide high speed and uninterrupted data at low latency. The introduction of the fifth generation (5G) communication network is expected to overcome speed barriers and enable faster data transmission.

Spring has sprung, as has a crop of fresh new analysis from Marketresearch.com's in-house publishing brands.  This week, analysts reported back from a global pet expo and shared insights related to  global roofing, the aluminum industry, education industry trends, and much, much more.