Ken, What you write makes sense and I agree.
Tom C. >From: "K.Takeshita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: K10D's available >Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:37:04 -0500 > >On 12/06/06 3:17 PM, "Tom C", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's not really me saying that "Pentax totally screwed up the marketing > > impact". It's Pentax themselves that have said that, indicating that >they > > underestimated demand, sometimes by factors of 10's or 100's. > >I would think that they know far better than we do here, but what I >speculate is that they have been in a sort of siege mentality for a long >time, and tended to play safe. Considering the existence of two dominant >giants and runaway sales of their bottom feeder models, anyone would go >rather conservative. It is quite natural that they base their sales >forecast on their prior models. What they said in their interview that >they >did not quite expect that K10D would sell so much more that K100D which was >already a great success. >Everybody could see what's going to happen when demand was so big, and it >was really exceptional. >However, once they realized that they hit the jackpot, they did everything >right and kept the delay to minimum. So, although some are screaming in >some quarters of the world, all in all, it must be a success and we can not >argue with success :-). > > > I'm just enjoying beating them with a stick after they said it. :-) > >Now you are honest and I like that :-). >I hope they are already setting about the next move as competitions are >fierce. But it appears that they got a knack of how to hit the sweet spots >of consumers, and realized that, if they make "right products" for right >market, they can always do good regardless of competition. They also talk >about the merits of smaller organization, and hope they continue to exist >like, say, BMW that is much smaller and not a mass production cookie cutter >company, but successful. If they read the market wrong, then see what >happened on Minolta which was much larger company than Pentax. > >So far, so good. Let's hope they can keep up. > >Ken > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
