On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:23:06PM -0400, Ed Keeney scripsit: > Panasonic limiting their cameras to only Panasonic battery > packs...could this be a move to be followed by other companies? > > http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/info/dsc_battery.html
I'm surprised they don't all do that already. Power conditioning circuitry that has to be able to handle everything from the rated battery through some git with zinc rods and a lemon is tough to build and much more expensive than what you need for a known single battery type. Throw in the interesting liability status of the manufacturer if the device catches fire -- there generally isn't any way to tell who made the battery after the lithium fire, and juries are generally perfectly willing to believe someone saying "oh, no, that wasn't a third party cheap battery" even on very flimsy grounds -- and the hit to the revenue stream, and it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense of from the manufacturer's perspective to allow anything but their batteries. This can still go wrong (as Apple and Dell have discovered) but it's a whole lot better odds. -- Graydon -- 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.
