>However, when he was asked how the sale of DSLRs are going, he was rather >frank and said [because of competing models released by Nikon and Canon, >Sony has been struggling badly. We have been planning 2nd and 3rd models >but cannot tell when we would launch these. But "we would not retreat"]. > >Well, he mentioned the word "retreat". Even though it was used in a >positive context, the very fact he used the word "retreat" without being >asked indicated to me their usual strategy, make money while they can, but >when going gets tough, just retreat and minimize bleeding. DSLR has never >been their main biz. They will continue to supply image sensor and might >even produce DSLRs with larger sensors or even FF, but their long term >strategy on DSLR is always strictly profit driven. > >Sorry. Sony fans. This is juts my personal take :-). > >Ken >
My experience in life has been that whenever a corporate executive says they are not going to do something, it means that they have already thought about doing it, and often times that very deed occurs. I have no idea about Sony and my guess is that it's too soon for them to abandon DSLR's at the moment. I have, however, been through numerous corporate mergers and been on over a dozen 40+ miilion dollar projects. Whenever I hear 'don't worry that is not going to happen', I start worrying. It's saved my neck multiple time in the last 25 years. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
