I don't think planned obsolescence is really a good business plan in the long run. Many businesses survived on brand loyalty long after they no longer deserved it. Once that loyalty is lost it takes years to rebuild if ever.
Bob Shell wrote: > I've followed all of this discussion for some time now. > > One person thinks Pentax should implement a feature to make it easy > to use old lenses with full compatibility. That would make sense if > Pentax was in the business of selling used lenses. Since they are in > the business of selling new lenses, planned obsolescence of features > used on old lenses is a very sound business decision. This insures > that they will continue to sell new lenses, at least until enough > time has passed to obsolete them all with something newer. > > Bob > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
