Originally posted by Unsinkable II I'm not allowed to be rude here, so I won't be.
That is appreciated.
From what you said about your family and employment history,
it appears that you may be trying to consider (or dismiss!)
the issue purely from a manufacturing standpoint.
But the question, a "devil's advocate question," let me remind you,
is as much about the psychology of the US market for Pentax
as it is about the logistics of manufacturing.
I was hoping that someone like Adam might have some relevant data,
e.g. concerning the portion of the US market that supports this site.
As I've mentioned in my earlier responses,
opinions without data, however emphatically expressed,
do not really help us address the question.
At this point, I am not ready to conclude that it is pure incompetence
without data to support that conclusion.