Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 26, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Scott McLoughlin wrote: > But is that where Leica is going here in this 4/3 market? What > is their value add in this alliance at the present time? Hence my > question whether or not they were making any money on this > deal, or this "alliance," and so on and so forth. My guess is: 1) Leica's getting paid for use of their name and some of their technology. 2) Leica gets access to technologies and components that will allow them to develop and release further high-end digital products. 3) Leica gets to try to market a Panasonic-clone camera with their own name on it for a steep markup. All of these are reasonable things for them to be doing, in my opinion, even if they're not really set up to do #3 that well. :) -- Mark