Originally posted by osv which affected *all* camera manufacturers, not just sony.
whatever tweaked math that you think that you are pointing at sony applies to all of 'em, and is therefore irrelevant.
1) This is not tweaked math this is what happened to them... They managed to be positive out of luck with foreign exchange rate. Still they go 2% decrease in sale for the division holding the cameras activity.
2) We didn't speak of other manufacturers net income here, but for example I just checked Canon. They sale increased by 3.1% to 1,448.9 billions yens for their "IMAGING SYSTEM BUSINESS UNIT" . Compared to Sony that had 2% decrease for sure Canon managed to do far better. Still they are far less invested in mirorless products than Sony.
I don't get what you try to achieve here? Some sony product are quite good, some other not. Sony is not that much of cash machine anymore and it has been for yeasr and overall, not just the camera sales but for most of their business. It is likely they don't even really try to have a good net income in the end but try to sell more products to gain market share. It did goes that well until know, but at least they tried.
The market is difficult to everybody and apparently Sony while not maybe in the worst position overall is far from being the company that got the best results here. That just how it is. I don't know why you think they should... Like you know the product you choosed as to be the best from the best company that of course will to take all over the world.
Who care? I mean apparently you own Pentax glass and this company hasn't been that fashionnable for many years now. It doesn't mean its products are bad or nobody should buy theses. I have no issue with that neither and I don't try to convince everybody that next year everybody will finally wake up and decide to all buy Pentax bodies and limited lenses because it was my own choice. I don't need to get the approval of the world to choose my camera or to justify my choices as being the smartest by explaining that in the future everybody will finally understand and make the sames choices as I did early as an early adopter.