Where will Pentax end up at though? Ficticious figures pulled out of air.
Canon sells 500,000 low end cameras at 20% profit. Pentax sells 100,000 medium-high end cameras at 5% profit. Case in point. Linux is a free operating system (nothing to do with whether it's good, better, etc.) Has it yet, in the real sense, overtaken Windows which Microsoft is making money hand-over-fist on? Pentax surely wants to gain some market share, but doing so at the expense of profits, is not necessarily a winning strategy. Tom C. > > >Hmmm. My theory has sort of been the opposite, i.e. that many people are >buying K10Ds etc. these days because they seem to represent decent >quality and the right amount of features at a very reasonable price. >While I suspect Pentax would loose out to Canon and Nikon (even more) if >they tried to make an impression of being more "upmarket". And perhaps >also if they went further along the line of really cheap high-volume >products. > >- Toralf > > > best, > > mishka -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
