Olympus abdicating entry level ILS market?

markintosh13 wrote:

007peter wrote: 1st time buyer do not fork out $1300 for an Olympus EM1. They started small with entry-level E-PM1, E-PM2, then build they way up to advance camera upgrade.

M43 users base is small in North America. Without an Entry-Level-Buyers to grow the M43 market, we are only selling to the dwindling based of existing M43 users, ergo, a dying market. In business, you either GROW or you Died. I don't want M43 to become a dying MySpace. I want M43 to become as popular as Instagram. And the only way to do so, is to have an Entry-Level-M43 camera that Lower the Entry of Barrier to camera buyer. We can agree to disagree.

I find it amusing that you considered my original post in this thread to be overly simplistic, and you come out with these broad simplistic generalizations and straw man analogies.

Your wants and desires are irrelevant - competitive forces in play are complex and the market is mature, widely adopted to the point of saturation and has been eroded by substitute technology. The camera industry is mature and generally saturated with the fixed lens devices that make up the vast majority of units in use – with some exceptions like the growth of more expensive cameras in the Asian market... that perhaps companies like Olympus are trying to tap into... however ILCs at this point are still niche, m4/3 are a niche in that niche, and most of the growth is projected to be in traditional DSLRs and upmarket/luxury mirrorless.

My personal opinion is that marketshare growth at this industry-life phase for the sake of marketshare through a price based strategy is a recipe for terminal disaster of epic proportion. There are no easy answers, but I find your attempts to provide one to be understandable.

Fair Enough.  Like I say before, let agree to disagree.

However, as an american journalist named Mencken once said, "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Great quote, I'm using it right back @you  Retreating to Premium Niche is Not a Solution, but a suicide.