On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Sandy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So, yeah, I'm wrong on the "nobody but Sony" point. I don't think I'm >> wrong on the "dominant or crushing position" objective on Sony's part. >> Making Nikon help pay for it is just icing from Sony's point of view. > > My guess is Sony's objective is to be one of the major players. > > For example, almost every camera store carries N & C, but not all > have Pentax or Olympus. I've seen online advice that some buyers > should consider only N or C because they have the broadest range > of lenses and you can rent lenses for them easily. I'm not sure that > is correct and it is irrelevant to me anyway, but it is out there. > > Sony want to be a major brand in DSLRs, competing with N & C.
Sony has publicly stated that their current aim is to become the #2 player in the DSLR market. Their success has been mixed due to having excellent upper-end models crippled by atrocious lower-end models (seriously, their best selling DSLR's in the Japanese market are the A300 and A350, despite having been replaced by the A330 and A380 respectively last spring. Users overwhelmingly preferred the older designs). -Adam -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
