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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Leica T Digital Camera : Product Overview : Adorama TV | |
I think it is arrogant to think that a company should forego profits for their customers' convenience and pleasure.
Never have I seen the difference between a rampant capitalist perspective and something more reciprocal more bluntly put. No one is talking about forgoing profits, rather a more customer-oriented approach to business. Not having it backfires. I, for one, would be very interested in the Monochrom, I have all the lenses I would ever need and I have the ready cash, and I am sure it is a good product, but for me that is not enough. I won't buy a €6000 camera with a useless, cheapskate screen and a slow, antiquated chip - especially when I know that they already have better technology already developed, tested and available. It's not as if they need to do R&D. So that's their loss.
As for your remarks about innovation, I didn't mention the word. Innovation also includes updating products where you can make real improvements for little investment. Their multi-pronged model range including third-party products re-branded for double the price and an MF system, which by all accounts is not selling, smacks more of desperation to me than a clear strategy.
I agree with your remarks on a conservative anchoring of a product in a well-proven tradition which works, but disagree with the idea that maximising profits means not making simple and meaningful user-friendly upgrades of both software and hardware.
At least their Leica T, if nothing else, has an innovative user interface. Whether it is worth having or not, I really don't know.
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