Yes Carmin:
I do like canisters.  I own a ton of them.  All makes and models in my collection of 442 vacuum cleaners.  I even like my Dyson canisters (both launched models and unlaunched model), but the bread and butter for Dyson is still in uprights.  It's a rare day anyone comes into the vac shop and asks for canisters, quite the opposite.  When you approach them about canisters, most people tell you they don't want to drag something behind them.  And, most people are either lazy or in a hurry and want the job done in the LEAST amount of time.
 
I started my professional life in vacuums with Rainbow (and still today run an authorized service center). I liked the Rainbow because it didn't have (Yah) a bag and it didn't clog as I picked up dirt with it.  What a novel idea.  Sounds like a Dyson?  Along the way I sold Filter Queen and Electrolux door to door.  I already had a vac shop when the Air-Way Signature Series was launched.  
 
I knew, many years ago, that James was on to something.  I told you as much many years ago on the old Vac Web forum (I love to say I Told You So) and predicted the current situation for Dyson in the U.S. 4 years before it ever got here.  How's that for foresight.
I guess I just recognize greatness instead of always 'poo pooing' anything without a Hoover label on it.
 
The Dyson was, and is, a revolution in vacuum cleaning technology. It's not going away, and it doesn't have to be discounted to sell.  There's no reason that people won't pay MORE for better products.  And that's the very thing that frustrates Hoover, Bissell, and others. They do NOT have better technology, because they are looking at the whole problem upside down.  
 
James looked at the vacuum cleaner problem from the eyes of someone who USED the machine.  In fact, he had a VAX.  It was the VAX's bag that caused him to become so frustrated at the machine.  
 
The reason I have no respect for someone like you is that you can't see the forest for the trees.  If you are unwilling to admit there's a problem with bags, then how will you ever admit there's anything better.  The same way that you 'poo pooed' electric lights when they were invented, perfering to use candles.  Or when they invented cars.  You didn't want to give up your horses.  Now, we have technology that allows a vacuum cleaner to work properly, all the time.  And, of course, you disparage the new technology in favor of the filthy old clogging vacuum cleaner bag.  Why?  You have long ago retired, sold your business, and moved to an old age home.  It doesn't and shouldn't matter to you one bit, since you no longer make your high profit from the sale of those filthy, expensive bags.
 
Once again, as I said to you MANY years ago, ALL vacuums will one day use Dyson's technology.  The fact that all the 'big box' brands are currently (or will soon) use Dyson's technology is just proof I've been right all along.  You, Carmin, are a member of the 'old guard'.  Once the 'old guard' has died out the world will be free of smelly, filthy clogging old bags forever.

Wow dualcyclone, two websites in one week.  What's going on?
 
The vacuum cleaner bag is not going to disappear.  There will always be a need for them. Bagless also have their place, but they are not for everyone.  Some people should not have them because of allergies or respiratory problems.  Bagless come in handy if you have alot of animal hair to pick up and you are finding that the bag must be changed in less than 4wks.

The stick vacs of the 50's were bagless and then the manufactuers put bags in them . I heard from the complaints that dirt was blowing everywhere and back in their face.

Hi all,
 
Quick question . . . considering the high price for some bagless vacuums, how much innovation am I paying for as opposed to how much of my money is meant to compensate the makers for the disposable bags they won't be selling?
 
Venson

Carmine, I beg your pardon.
 
My Iridium was NOT made in North Korea, I assure you.
 
And I simply didn't want a machine that would fall apart after six months.
 
Most of the American buying public understands EXACTLY what the justification is for buying such a product is.
 
I have no time for defective products, or for running around to seven thousand discount shops, to buy an inferior product that will last a year at the most.
 
Bags for all but the most bottom-of-the-line products are NOT available in big-box stores, whether the bags be named Honeywell, Arm and Hammer, or any other brand name.  Vacuum repair shops are going the way of the dinosaur in my neck of the woods, and to a repairman, the service personnel are not well-versed, even on the legacy brands.  The markup on bags and other sundries is unspeakably high, and with outsourcing, these products are extremely likely to be unavailable even in the near future.
 
North Korea, Carmine.  REALLY.