Yeah reusing model names is a really dumb idea. I mean, what's up with rehashing names like Mustang, Corvette & Charger.
What are manufacturers thinking, that'll just confuse the hell out of the poor dumb buying public. <guy walks into a Ford dealership> "I'd like to buy a new Mustang. But let's just be clear that this is a '09 Mustang and not a '67." DS 2009/2/21 JC OConnell <[email protected]>: > repeat model names is not good whether the old ones are still > in production or not. Should they come out with another > *istD in 2010 just because the old one is discontinued? nah.... > > JC O'Connell > [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > John Sessoms > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 6:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Whats with recent Pentax Camera names? > > > From: "JC OConnell" >> regardless, its really dumb to have two completely >> different products with the same model name (when spoken >> at least). Unless youre forced to call the new one the K dash M. > > I don't think they're still making the KM, so I doubt there's that much > confusion. > > In fact, I doubt most purchasers of the K-M would even know there once > was a model KM, although it may be Pentax chose a deliberate play on the > > name of one of their earlier successes. > > I know that when they adopted the K100D name for their entry level > camera, it was a deliberate homage to the ubiquitous K1000. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
