Exactly! A firm with deep pockets can take a short term hit IF they have a long term vision.
Tom On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 06:24:27PM -0600, William Robb scripsit: >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maas" Subject: Re: How useful >> is SDM? >>> Sony's one product cycle off a $1600 FF body. I expect the A850 to >>> hit that point by PMA 2011, if not sooner. And there may be an even >>> cheaper A800 in the lineup this year (lower-MP sensor in an A850 >>> body). >> >> When they sell a body for that much, are they actually going to make a >> profit on it? > > Consumer electronics price curve says they can; I'm pretty sure they > didn't make money on the A900s but Sony does know how to do electronics > design. > > Also, they don't have to make money this year, necessarily; they can > make money in the future if they can manage to bleed slower than the > competition, something else Sony is pretty good at. > > -- 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. > -- 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.
