Toyota and Canon were at, or near the top of their fields and willing to
spend whatever it took to get themselves established in the growing
markets they were going after. Pentax has neither the pockets or stomach
to do this. Just having a product doesn't do much for a company. When
Pentax was making fully competitive 35mm, film SLRs 20 years ago, all
they ever did was stick them out there with a 4 sale sign on them.
Pentax may be interested in making cameras, but they're sure not very
interested in selling them. The original Nikon distributor in the US was
a American company, that know how to sell product. Anyone who thinks it
makes good sense to spend lots of money to get market share of a
shrinking market (expensive, pro grade film 35mm SLRs) has lost all
touch with reality.
Deterministic is a system whose outcome is predetermined. Things fall
down due to gravity and can be calculated is deterministic. Things fall
up and float away is Pentax marketing.
BR
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Neither did Toyota. Expensive japanese cars was a joke not that long ago. Now americans in particular is picking up Lexus'es in huge numbers. If you don't offer a product, you can't expect to have a customer base for it. The deterministic view some seem to promote means that you can't sell something you're not already selling or something somebody else is selling. Thank God it doesn't work that way. If it did Canon wouldn't have been where they are today (or Nikon for that matter).
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