Gene Miller77510
Senior Member
Inigo,
I didn't mean shame for us as consumers. Rereading what I wrote I can understand why you took it that way. I'm sorry for that. What I meant is that all corportions function in a similar manner. We as consumers get stuck with the greedly decisions corporations make. With Ford and the rest of the car manufactures it took consumers sueing them before and a lot of injuries and deaths before anything was done. In fact we as consumers benefit when one of us step forward and goes where few consumers go and take on the gaints of this world. One has to tie corportate power and greed to government power and greed. Not a pretty picture to point fingers, but it is that has to done once in awhile. Probably not often enough. I don't see it changing anytime soon.
I had problems with a number of companies over the years. I don't find Olympus to be any worse. The one I dislike the most is Sony. I have posted about them before. I had a little problem with Canon, a major problem with Panasonic, and so on and so forth.
Will this stop me from buying from some of those companies? No, it has made me cautious, but hasn't stopped me. This consumer fear we have when we buy large ticketed items has created another whole business. Buying extended warantees. Another creations of greeding corporations. I resent that more than new memory cards. When we buy into the new technologies, sometimes we get stuck holding the cheese. It's part of this Farmer in the Dell game we play in the name of techology.
As far as the memory cards go, at least Olympus offered multiple card compatibility in the C5050. I don't see the other companies doing that.
I am really in agreement with you. I past mad many years ago and life is too short to remain mad and this technology is too fun to ignore it. With my collection of cheese, I go on. Take care.
I didn't mean shame for us as consumers. Rereading what I wrote I can understand why you took it that way. I'm sorry for that. What I meant is that all corportions function in a similar manner. We as consumers get stuck with the greedly decisions corporations make. With Ford and the rest of the car manufactures it took consumers sueing them before and a lot of injuries and deaths before anything was done. In fact we as consumers benefit when one of us step forward and goes where few consumers go and take on the gaints of this world. One has to tie corportate power and greed to government power and greed. Not a pretty picture to point fingers, but it is that has to done once in awhile. Probably not often enough. I don't see it changing anytime soon.
I had problems with a number of companies over the years. I don't find Olympus to be any worse. The one I dislike the most is Sony. I have posted about them before. I had a little problem with Canon, a major problem with Panasonic, and so on and so forth.
Will this stop me from buying from some of those companies? No, it has made me cautious, but hasn't stopped me. This consumer fear we have when we buy large ticketed items has created another whole business. Buying extended warantees. Another creations of greeding corporations. I resent that more than new memory cards. When we buy into the new technologies, sometimes we get stuck holding the cheese. It's part of this Farmer in the Dell game we play in the name of techology.
As far as the memory cards go, at least Olympus offered multiple card compatibility in the C5050. I don't see the other companies doing that.
I am really in agreement with you. I past mad many years ago and life is too short to remain mad and this technology is too fun to ignore it. With my collection of cheese, I go on. Take care.
