Yeah, but we threw their stinkin' tea overboard and they sent the Beatles
over here and captured us! :)
Tom C. (modern history expert)
From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Pentax/Samsung: update?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:57:57 -0400
You guys know how long this stuff goes back? The US clock makers were
accused by the UK government of price fixing and the shipments of clocks
confistacted and only paid $1 to the manufacturers. So all of a sudden there
were many thousands of clocks showing up at the docks, as the US
manufactures were actually making a profit of 25 cents each at that price.
Around 1825.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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David Oswald wrote:
Rob Studdert wrote:
On 13 Oct 2005 at 23:38, Dario Bonazza wrote:
I believe it's been added some more info since I read this page first:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05101201samsung_pentaxdslrs.asp
Nothing detailed, though.
I've always wanted a pentaprism on a mobile phone.
On a separate note, Samsung was just convicted of price fixing of memory
chips, and ordered to pay a US$300,000,000 (300 million) fine. They're the
third major memory manufacurer to either plead guilty or be handed a
conviction. Micron was also involved apparently, but won't face charges
since they've "cooperated with authorities" (maybe they were the whistle
blowers).
I remember a few years back hearing accusations by Olympus and other
"Japanese" camera manufacturers that the Korean companies like Samsung were
dumping digital cameras on the market below cost to try to grab market
share. I'm not sure how much truth there was to that accusation, but it
could be one more black mark on Samsung.
This post doesn't have any particular point other than to call out a few
interesting tidbits regarding Pentax's new partner.
