Tom C wrote: > Where will Pentax end up at though? > > Ficticious figures pulled out of air. > > Canon sells 500,000 low end cameras at 20% profit. > Pentax sells 100,000 medium-high end cameras at 5% profit. > > Case in point. Linux is a free operating system (nothing to do with whether > it's good, better, etc.) Has it yet, in the real sense, overtaken Windows > which Microsoft is making money hand-over-fist on? I thing you're seeing it from the wrong angle. Linux overtaking Windows was never a real possibility, at least in the short run. With the current licensing policy, several companies are still able to make *some* money from it. At a "premium" cost they'd probably have no users at all, and theoretically higher earnings per licence wouldn't do a lot of good, then.
I might actually be the same way with cameras. > Pentax surely wants to > gain some market share, but doing so at the expense of profits, is not > necessarily a winning strategy. > > Tom C. > > >> Hmmm. My theory has sort of been the opposite, i.e. that many people are >> buying K10Ds etc. these days because they seem to represent decent >> quality and the right amount of features at a very reasonable price. >> While I suspect Pentax would loose out to Canon and Nikon (even more) if >> they tried to make an impression of being more "upmarket". And perhaps >> also if they went further along the line of really cheap high-volume >> products. >> >> - Toralf >> >> >>> best, >>> mishka >>> > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
