I have over 20 years in product engineering and lived With marketing guys on my back all that time. Heres How it works : When (and if ) you add or remove features >From products, the bottom line is, does it ADD ( or remove ) VALUE to the potential customer(s)? You dont add features That customers DON'T want or need and you dont delete features That DO customers want or need. Its that simple. My opinion On this whole matter is clear. I think it ( the cam sensor type AE) should be still be available ( not removed ) on the top line Pentax DSLR model(s) And the retail price adjueted accordingly. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pål Jensen Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:26 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey ----- Original Message ----- > Wow! So if they sold 2 million cameras it would be 10 million! Think > of all the savings they could make if they did not manufacture > cameras! > > This feature, like all others, has been and would be sold to the > customer. Sorry, but this is not how it works. The linkages is not regarded a feature that can be sold to the customer. It is an expense that do not increase sales but decrease profit. Eg the SR feature probably double or quadruple the potential sales of the K100D; very much worth the added cost. None of the competition offers more extended backwards compatibility than Pentax anyway so it is very likely that Pentax doesn't feel they are loosing anything by removing the linkage. Pål -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
