the whole industry has been saying that there is a small time window left
before everything freezes because the market becomes saturated. it will
happen this year for the total digital camera market, and no later than the
end of next year for the DSLR market. after then, if you aren't making money
with the market share/revenue that you have, you never will, because price
cutting and competition is only going to get tougher. Pentax has been going
after the bottom, getting market share, and losing money while they are at
it. if they were losing money by investing heavily in R&D, i wouldn't worry
much, but instead they are laying off people and transfering people,
including engineers, from the imaging products division to other divisions.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Pentax Profits Fall 42%
Depending on what they see an sufficient technology to upgrade from the
istD with, we may have a bit of a wait until the technology going into it
is enough behind the curve to satisfy their rather odd mindset about
competing in the marketplace.
