Rob, >yet they didn't fully appreciate the potential pull of the product.
Forecasting the future sales of a new product is one of the most difficult things to do when you're involved with creating the product. You lose rational objectivity. And you still don't know how the competition will respond. It's a tough game. Regards, Bob S. On 12/5/06, Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/12/06, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rob, > > It's a competitive market place. Imagine what happens if Nikon or > > Canon introduced a 10mp camera at a price point 15% below Pentax. > > Suppose they get wind of Pentax's success and decide to 'buy' the > > market...starting tomorrow! > > You can't count on anything when you're a Chimp wrestling with two Gorillas. > > Granted but even with their potentially captive market of Pentax lens > owners they could have priced it higher and still made decent sales. > New owners are obviously what they were aiming for yet they didn't > fully appreciate the potential pull of the product. > > -- > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > -- > 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
