Digital Image Studio wrote: > On 05/12/06, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Once it became obvious that the K10 was going to be in great demand, it >> was obvious that Pentax wouldn't be able to meet initial demand. Same >> as Nikon. The same thing happens in the car business when a product >> takes off. It's not necessarily incompetent to be conservative in your >> original volume estimates. > > Anyone with any sense could have correlated the sales potential with > the price point that they settled on, it wasn't a case of > conservatism. >
I'd disagree. The price point was a natural (A hair less than the closest equivalent Nikon). I think it was a combination of expecting more from the competition and making a product that was simply superior to everything else on the market at that price point. Pentax was expecting Pentax-level sales. They got much better sales than that. They weren't expecting the level of interest from non-Pentax users that they got. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
