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taran wrote:
It's a little more complicated than that due to the fact Olympus doesn't really have anything Sony needs. There has never been any "technology sharing" between the two companies. That was merely a marketing ruse and a way to mollify investors after an Olympus stock free fall two years ago. Sony, by investing a few sheckels in Olympus, and issuing a bogus press release, ensured they are the exclusive supplier of Olympus's endoscope sensors as long as Olympus produces them.
In addition, because of this investment at a critical time, and because Sony is the exclusive supplier of sensors to Olympus, Olympus cannot enforce any of its copyrights against Sony (it means the death of the company). In other words, Sony gets to copy any technology Olympus develops that's interesting, which it did, immediately, with 5 axis stabilization.
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Olympus uses both Sony and Panasonic sensors, the E-M1 uses a Panasonic sensor. So no, Sony doesn't have that much of a grip on Olympus
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