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Re: [OM] Panasonic to Bankroll Olympus

Subject: Re: [OM] Panasonic to Bankroll Olympus
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:11:50 +1000
Impressive advert but what absolute crap music !!

...Wayne



> 
> Here's the body of an e-mail I forwarded to *my*  Ken - my son who is in
the
> investment field:
> 
> *Sell Apple -- Buy Corning?*
> 
> 
>  While this all seems unreal, go back 10 years or so and what were your
> thoughts about some of the things we have today?
> 
> Wonder why HP, Dell and other leading computer manufacturers believe the
> end of the computer as we know it is near. It's not the iPad that has them
> concerned about the future, it is developments  like the ones Corning is
> working on.
> *CLICK HERE*...*
> GLASS<http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&vq=mediu
> m>
> *
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > I'm surprised that this did not happen earlier given the somewhat
> > > close working relationship between the two.  I was also surprised
> > > that
> > something
> > > of this sort did not take place with Kodak as the two of them teamed
> > > up
> > to
> > > make the 10MB sensor some time ago.  Must be that Kodak is
> > > infiltrated
> > with
> > > managers who earlier worked for Motorola.
> >
> > Agreed. But one of the big problems with these companies is that
> > innovation from bottom-up is highly discouraged. The corporate culture
> > is that of conformity. Unfortunately what this means is that you do
> > whatever it is that your boss does and he is doing what his boss did
> > before him. I work for a company that is actually quite new in an old
> > industry. Just in the short time I've been with this company, it has
> > reorg'd at least twice. Every time we acquire another company the
> > whole structure shakes up again. The problem is continuity (and having
> > to reinvent the wheel each time), but the advantage is that we get a
> > fresh approach almost every year. Not necessarily a bad thing. (We've
> > been told that the entire engineering department will be reorged at
> > least every three years no matter what).
> >
> >
> > > I can see Panasonic gaining controlling interest of Olympus, keeping
> > > the name alive in the area of high-end and professional cameras and
> > medical
> > > optics while Panasonic remains with the P&S products (I wanted to
> > > say
> > toys,
> > > but I'll restrain myself).
> >
> > The company I'd be sucking up to in a big way is Samsung. Mobilization
> > (Internet enabled) of photography is the future and there are only
> > three companies that have this mobilization thing really nailed down:
> > Apple, Google and Samsung. Apple is all about Apple, but Samsung will
> > work with anybody. Google and Apple are both all about intellectual
> > property. But with this "merging" with Panasonic, this very well could
> > be the death of Olympus in the consumer-products realm as Panasonic
> > and Samsung are kinda mortal enemies.
> >
> > Sadly, I don't see this Panasonic buy in of Olympus to be a good
> > thing. I'm not saying a Fuji buy would have been any better, but as
> > Olympus has proven incompetent in being able to make the imaging
> > division profitable, it's only a matter of time before somebody shoves
> > a fork in this turkey..
> >
> > >From Panasonic's perspective, this is a smart move. They get to
> > protect the intellectual propery by keeping it out of another
> > company's hands. At this point, Panasonic has a firm grip around the
> > giblets of Olympus. But until Panasonic figures out that the P&S
> > market is dying very fast without a mobilization product, both
> > Panasonic and Olympus will end up as footnotes in the history of
> > photography.
> >
> > AG
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> >
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