Agreed as well. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:57 PM, John Celio<n...@neovenator.com> wrote: > Graydon's post was the first to make complete, rational sense in this > entire thread. I find it amusing that it seems to have been completely > ignored by the "doom & gloom" crowd. > > John > > -- > http://www.neovenator.com > http://www.cafepress.com/calemp > http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Hoya to seek digital camera alliance > From: Graydon <o...@uniserve.com> > Date: Wed, August 19, 2009 7:12 pm > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:27:49PM -0400, Perry Pellechia scripsit: > > I was planning on buying a K7, but when a company says they are > > pessimistic that they can survive why should we believe they can? > > That's not even *close* to what he said. > > The guy is *Japanese*. > > Japanese software never, ever, under any circumstances, tells you to > "press OK button to continue"; that would be having an inanimate object > give a command to a person, and that would be unacceptably rude. It > says things like "your experience could possibly be improved should you > elect to press the OK button". Japanese software firms will not admit > to the existence of bugs, either; they produce point releases which > enhance existing features. (Sometimes they enhance them into not > destroying your data, but admitting to a specific bug? No. Not done.) > > So for a Japanese exec to say "we're not large enough to support > arbitrary future camera development" is a loss of face. Needing a > partner; also a loss of face. Very gloomy. Nothing at all about the > short and medium-term viability of the business, just "we can't take on > Canon and Sony and Panasonic by ourselves". > > Which has been blessed obvious for quite some time now, really. > > Samsung, well, we'll see. They're in the Sony and Panasonic size class; > the problem is that they're Korean, and Japanese/Korean relations have > this element of irrationality. (As in, Japanese people are reluctant to > buy cameras with Korean sensors in them.) > > But, you know, the future is uncertain; someone might figure out how to > dynamically sinter variable diffraction lenses out of tetrahedral > carbon, aluminium, and fluorine for dirt cheap, and someone else might > figure out how to make sensors out of coated glass fibre, and the > entire > camera business as we know it could disappear next year. There is no > knowing. > > For now, though, I don't see any particular reason for panic, or even > particular concern; the Pentax camera business is apparently hitting > their short term sales targets, starting to think about more market > share and taking on Sony and Canon, and therefor prepping the ground > for > "will require partner", so that it's a sound strategic alliance rather > than humiliating desperation when they go do it. Face management, > that's all. Absolutely vital to an East Asian firm. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > p...@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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