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Dave McGaughey wrote:
Really? This is a crazy move, if true. Why would Fuji piss off all of their new adopters so quickly? I know you can't expect a company to stop releasing products when you buy something, but releasing a slightly improved camera merely months later is an odd move. Especially since the X-Pro1 is still chugging along.
I think it's because the major MILC players seem to be thinking that the key to success/survival is growing their respective mount adopters at the expense of everything else... in particularly loyalty/consideration to past/recent adopters.
One part of that approach means updating at every opportunity to keep yourself at maximum competitiveness against your competitors' offerings at all times, while keeping your products in the headlines. All the MILC makers have been doing this. The Fuji X-T1P might be an extreme manifestation of this (I mean, I haven't even seen a X-T1 in the wild yet), that as you surmise, will piss off a lot of the X-T1 early adopters... but they needed a hard spec to lord over everyone else, probably in particular the A6000. They probably figured the X-T1 early adopters can "take one for the team" for the long-term welfare of the X-mount.
Another part of this approach is breaking of price-to-feature relationships. Sony did that with the A6000, when it would've been just as lauded and well-received had it came at the same pricing as the NEX-6, and maybe even the NEX-7. But they also decided that it was more important to draw non-MILC (or other-MILC) users into the E-mount fold with killer pricing. The substantial temporal spacing didn't piss off the NEX-6/7 users (i.e. it was an appropriate time to replace the old models), but it set off something more interesting: the adamant belief that a new model, despite obvious similarities, can't possibly be the successor to the older, more expensive models (in particular the NEX-7), despite substantial improvements in almost all the key functionalities, and the complete absence of rumors to justify any belief other than that Sony simply replaced the NEX-7's price point with the A7.
Funny times these days.
Edited on Jun 13, 2014 at 04:17 PM · View previous versions
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