Darren, I have to politely disagree. I believe it's all market driven. I believe that the engineer with a new toy is always thinking 'How could I sell a million of these?' The engineer turns it into something, and then turns it over to marketing for more polishing. Jobs was an exceptional businessman. He knew what he wanted and then beat the crap out of people until he got it and made it simple and elegant. You can do that if you're incredibly rich and stubborn. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:19 AM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >> Y'all are trying to apply common sense to marketing hype. Hardly anyone >> *needs* 24MP. A whole lot of people apparently *WANT* 24MP. > > No, I believe that you have it backwards. Sensor manufacturers are > constantly looking to make whatever they make some products bigger and > better and existing products cheaper (economies of scale, if nothing > else). Camera manufacturers look at what is coming "down the pike" in > sensor design, select them and design around their components. Then > the marketing people are charged with fanning the flames of consumer > desire. > > If there is anything we learned from Steve Jobs and his groundbreaking > products it is that the public doesn't have any idea what it wants, > until *after* they see it. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
